Currently, 95% of Americans are under lockdown to help spread the curb of coronavirus.
And it's working: The US is seeing sustained declining plateaus of new cases. Now, there are already talks of relieving the economic pain brought on by the lockdown — but reopening the economy might look different for every state and is likely to be done in phases.
Three multistate coalitions have formed, in the northeast, west, and midwest, to coordinate measures to reopen their economies, but they have yet to make concrete plans.
That's because these reopening plans are dependent on various factors, like controlling the rate of infections and hospitalizations, making testing and contact tracing more widespread, making sure healthcare facilities are properly equipped to handle another resurgence, and employing social distancing practices in the workplace.
Several reopening plans, such as those laid out by the Trump administration and by researchers with Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said that a state should see a declining number of new cases for at least two weeks before reopening. It's a threshold that no state has hit yet, reported Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey.
But some states are already making moves to begin reopening parts of their economies this week, even as more Americans die from COVID-19 per week than from any other common cause of death, according to data analysis by Business Insider.
The same states were among the last to issue stay-at-home orders, doing so in April after many states already had in March.
Here are the three states beginning to reopen their economies the same month they shut them down.
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