Some public health experts warned that the country still lacks adequate testing to track and contain potential coronavirus outbreaks.
The Trump administration has released guidelines for opening up parts of the country for business, but governors will have the final decision on when and how that happens.
But public health experts surveyed by ABC News, even as they praised the broad strokes of Trump's reopening plan, said testing shortages would prevent states from safely beginning the reopening process, describing the problem as one requiring a federal, not state-by-state, solution. President Donald Trump listens as Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, April 17, 2020, in Washington.
"The only way to successfully contain is with really systematic and aggressive testing and isolation and contact tracing. And the states don't have the capacity to do that on their own," she said.Contact tracing, a system of identifying new cases of COVID-19 by tracking a symptomatic individual's interactions with other people to find new cases, is also seen as a key piece of the plan to slowly reopen the country.
Leaving the issue up to states to solve for themselves could create inequities in testing capacity between states, the experts warned.
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