President Trump boasted in Thursday's briefing that some states could reopen 'immediately'. But that would affect relatively few Americans, and ignores a guideline that requires testing for the coronavirus to be widely available.
Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesHealth care workers walk outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center Wednesday in New York City.Touting the federal government's response to the novel coronavirus, President Trumpon Thursday, laying out guidelines for a phased"reopening" of the country.
The guidelines suggest states with a 14-day"downward trajectory" of cases can start to reopen by relaxing their levels of social distancing. But the guidance doesn't address other crucial targets that experts say states need to consider, such as wide-spread testing. Testing remains one of the biggest problems with containing the coronavirus and allowing places to move toward recovery. Despite Trump's boasts, testing is still not widespread in the U.S. Not everyone who wants a test can get one. Only people with symptoms are getting them — and not all of them are — and asymptomatic people are able to spread the disease. That means no one really knows just how widespread the virus is.
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