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The United States will need to continue social distancing through the summer, said the coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Speaking on the NBC Sunday news show“Meet the Press,”Deborah Birx also said the U.S. needs a“breakthrough”in testing to find infected people who display mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Confirmed cases in the United States rose above 960,000 on Sunday, with more than 54,000 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Birx said the task force would work with the states to increase testing numbers.
Cuomo: Some New York State businesses may resume after May 15th
Businesses in New York could start reopening in three weeks under a plan outlined Sunday by Andrew Cuomo, the governor of America's hardest-hit state.
Cuomo said construction and factory workers in some areas of the state could return to work after May 15. The first counties to reopen would be those where hospitalizations had declined for 14 days straight.
Cuomo presented a road map for getting the state's economy moving again after the coronavirus lockdown that began March 22. Cuomo said officials will be watching the number of hospitalizations, the results of antibody testing and the overall number of infections to determine how fast to reopen businesses.
A man rides a bike in Times Square amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 26, 2020 in New York City. Kena Betancur / Agence France-Presse / AFP
Confirmed coronavirus cases stood at more than 288,000 in New York on Sunday, with 22,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. New York City accounted for more than half of the state's infections and three-quarters of the deaths. On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the coronavirus has caused $7.4 billion in economic damage to the city, and he called for the federal government to make up for the losses.
He told Fox News, “The federal government must make us whole for us to be able to be in a position to restart. If New York City isn't whole, it will drag down the entire region and it will hold up the entire economic restart.”
Report: Virus caused heart of first U.S. victim to “burst open”
The first known U.S. victim of COVID-19 died of a massive heart attack, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday. The newspaper said it obtained an autopsy report on the 57-year-old woman, who lived in the San Francisco area and died on Feb. 6. Her death was not initially attributed to coronavirus, but the autopsy found signs of the disease throughout her body. A pathologist who viewed the report told the newspaper the woman's heart “burst open”.
In Montana, some churches resumed in-person services after a stay-at-home order expired, but in Georgia, most churches kept their doors closed even though the state's governor lifted restrictions. Both states are among those who have allowed some activities to resume in an attempt to get their economies moving again. Other states will allow some businesses to reopen on Monday.
