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States Are Reopening. Here’s What You Should Read.

States and cities remain divided on when and how to relax restrictions

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
3 min readMay 3, 2020

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Across the U.S., some governors are moving to relax stay-at-home orders and even allow certain business to reopen. But tensions remain. There’s a lack of agreement about when and how to safely ease restrictions. In Mississippi, governor Tate Reeves announced on Friday that he had changed his mind about reopening after the state reported its largest increase in new cases. Here’s a few smart reads to understand the evolving situation nationwide.

Here’s where all the states stand on reopening. CNN has compiled a detailed list for all 50 states.

Florida starts tomorrow. The Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald asked seven public health experts to review Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ re-opening plan that begins on Monday. Here’s what they found.

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Medium Coronavirus Blog
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Published in Medium Coronavirus Blog

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Alexandra Sifferlin

Written by Alexandra Sifferlin

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that

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