{"id":91400,"date":"2020-04-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91400"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:46:30","slug":"nyt-how-will-we-know-when-its-time-to-reopen-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91400","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) How Will We Know When It\u2019s Time to Reopen the Nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of epidemiology and law at Yale, said: \u201cI\u2019d feel better if we had serological testing, and could preferentially allow those who are antibody positive and no longer infectious to return to work first. The point is, though, that we are nowhere even near accomplishing any of these criteria. Opening up before then will be met with a resurgence of the virus.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cThat\u2019s the thing that keeps me up every night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until we get a vaccine or effective drug treatments, focusing on these major criteria, and directing efforts toward them, should help us determine how we are progressing locally, and how we might achieve each goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/06\/upshot\/coronavirus-four-benchmarks-reopening.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everyone wants to know when we are going to be able to leave our homes and reopen the United States. The better question is: \u201cHow will we know when to reopen the country?\u201d Experts offer four benchmarks that can serve as a guide. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BG0Kt5wp8r\">https:\/\/t.co\/BG0Kt5wp8r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1247126922049486849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of epidemiology and law at Yale, said: \u201cI\u2019d feel better if we had serological testing, and could preferentially allow those who are antibody positive and no longer infectious to return to work first. The point is,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91400\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,104,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91402,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91400\/revisions\/91402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}