In hopes of getting the economy going again, some states are reopening with lesser restrictions even though coronavirus cases are still rising.
What We Know:
- Governors are taking different approaches when developing plans to reopen businesses in their states and lighten social distancing resrictions.
- States in the Northwest, Midwest, and West Coast have formed coalitions to usher regional recovery.
- California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado annouced joining together to coordinate reopening plans. They will all reopen based on a four phase plan advised California Governor Gavin Newsom.
- States such as Delaware, Massachuestts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island have banded together to get people back to work and restore the economy in their states.
- Other states, like Georgia, have faced criticism for allowing nonessential businesses like barber shops and tattoo parlors to resume in-person operations as long as they follow social distancing guidelines like keeping customers 6 feet apart.
- In Georgia, businesses will also have to operate under sanitary and social distancing requirements until May 13 and will remain in a state of emergency until June 13th.
- Beginning May 4th, Missouri and Montana have opened all businesses provided that they adhere to social distancing guidelines.
- With all these states reopening, new projections predict coronavirus cases could drastically increase in the coming weeks.
- Eight states, like Texas, have seen a thousand or more case spikes over the past week and only five states have seen 1,000 cases drop within the same period.
Governors are doing their best to revive the economy in their states by allowing people to go back to work, while trying to keep residents safe.
