How to know when cities can reopen?
From this morning's New York Times, researchers have identified these criteria:
1.Hospitals must be able to safely treat all patients requiring hospitalization, without resorting to crisis standards of care. That means having adequate beds, ventilators and staffing.
2. Authorities must be able test at least everyone who has symptoms, and to get reliable, timely results.
3. Health agencies must be able to monitor confirmed cases, trace contacts of the infected and have at-risk people go into isolation or quarantine.
4. Because it can take up to two weeks for symptoms to emerge, there must be a sustained reduction in cases for at least 14 days.
