Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, which has the second-most Covid-19 deaths, said the resumption of economic activity would be \u201cslow and careful, because the last thing we\u2019re going to need is going too quickly.\u2026 That\u2019s the equivalent, I think, of throwing gasoline on the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Miguel County in Colorado, using a test from United Biomedical, has plans to check all its residents for immunity. Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker last week announced a coronavirus tracking initiative that will involve 1,000 people working at a virtual call center to trace people exposed or infected with the virus.<\/p>\n
GOP Texas Lieut. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Tuesday he is forming a task force on how to reopen the economy, and GOP Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has created a response team to discuss measures that must be in place for opening the state back up.<\/p>\n
Some governors talked Tuesday with Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, about ways to work together or launch their own surveillance plans that would trace the disease should it resurface and spread. One idea is to galvanize congressional lawmakers to pass legislation setting a U.S. surveillance system for coronavirus in place.<\/p>\n
Dr. Gottlieb, who ran the FDA from 2017 to 2019, released a report on the \u201croadmap to reopening\u201d Tuesday with Mark McClellan, a physician and economist who ran the FDA under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m worried we don\u2019t have the systems in place to carefully reopen the economy,\u201d Dr. Gottieb said in an interview. \u201cYou need to be able to identify people who are sick and have the tools to enforce their isolation and [tracing of people they contact]. You have to have it at a scale we\u2019ve never done before. We need leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe federal government has yet to put in place the kind of nationwide testing, tracing and surveillance system that public health experts say is needed to prevent another surge..\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/lYYo77DwCP<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Bob Grip (@Bob_Grip) April 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n