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U.S. faces long road to reopening
Published April 7, 2020Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, discusses the steps needed to navigate the pandemic safely and how to begin transitioning back to normalcy. "Once a robust surveillance system is in place," she says, "coupled with widespread testing and a robust ability to implement tracing, isolation, and quarantines—and we've got the therapeutics or vaccines—we can return to some semblance of normal life."
