Not the time to ease social distancing

Should we continue to maintain social distancing? That is, remain at home to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The way I look at it is –
1. President Trump wants to end distancing by Easter
2. Experts say don’t end it in the next few weeks

I think we should listen to the public health experts.

The expert reasoning is explained at https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/24/no-time-to-ease-social-distancing/

If you don’t want to read it, this sentence sums it up nicely :

A premature return to business as usual could make transmission of the virus in the U.S. far more widespread, experts caution, and amplify a surge of illness that threatens to overwhelm the nation’s health care capacity.

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