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Headline Roundup April 13th, 2020

How the US is Moving to Re-open the Economy

Summary from the AllSides News Team

Debate persists over re-openingย the U.S. economy, as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to keep people out of work and hurt the country's financial sector. White House coronavirus task force leader Dr. Anthony Fauci has speculated, based on current data, that the economy may be able to start re-opening in May. Left-rated media voices generally expressed skepticism and concern over re-opening the economy and possibly lifting stay-at-home orders too early.ย 

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Trump says heโ€™ll reopen the economy โ€œbased on a lot of facts and a lot of instinctsโ€
Trump says heโ€™ll reopen the economy โ€œbased on a lot of facts and a lot of instinctsโ€

Vox

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President Donald Trump and two of his top public health advisers have taken different stances on the issue of when โ€” and how โ€” the decision to ease social distancing will be made.

Trump has advocated for aggressive goals in recent days, and said Saturday on Fox News that he plans to base his decision on when to adjust federal social distancing guidelines and ask businesses to reopen โ€œon a lot of facts and a lot of instincts.โ€

But two of his health advisers, director of the National Institute of...

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US will reach 'ballpark' capacity of diagnostic needs in May to open economy
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One of Trump administration's top advisers on the coronavirus response said Saturday that by May, the U.S. should be in the "ballpark" of the diagnostic capacity needed for the economy to begin to reopen.

โ€œBy May weโ€™ll have a lot more testing than we do now,โ€ Admiral Brett Giroir told Bloomberg.

โ€œBy May, we certainly will be in the ballpark. Whether we are exactly there depends on some factors, including how much is circulating and where regionally this falls out. That is the correct answer, I canโ€™t give you a...

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We're Working Closely with Governors to Open the Economy
We're Working Closely with Governors to Open the Economy

Townhall

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President Trump reiterated Monday morning he is working closely with governors across the country to determine when to safely re-open the American economy.

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