How do we reopen the country safely?

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The president talks about reopening the U.S. economy, but Lena Sun reports that experts say it would require widespread testing and contact tracing to do that safely. Long lines — and no relaxed restrictions — strain the nation’s food banks, Jenna Johnson reports. And, from Anna Fifield, how New Zealand didn’t just flatten the curve, but squashed it.

A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House.

Food banks sought relaxed federal rules to minimize contact. The USDA has stalled those requests, officials say.

New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Collie from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president for Power You.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Robert Given, at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:16.0	It's Monday, April 13th.
0:22.0	Today, how to reopen the country.
0:26.0	Long lines at Food Banks.
0:28.0	And how New Zealand has squashed the curve.
0:33.0	I'm going to have to make a decision.
0:38.0	And I only hope to God that it's the right decision.
0:43.0	But I would say without question, it's the biggest decision I've ever had to make.
0:51.0	The White House has been signaling for the last couple of days
0:56.0	that they want to reopen because of the impact on the economy.
1:02.0	And they keep talking about this date of April 30th,
1:06.0	when these last group of guidelines are supposed to be lifted or they will expire.
1:11.0	And they do say that they are going to let public health experts weigh in.
1:18.0	My name is Lena Sun.
1:20.0	I'm a health reporter for the Washington Post.
1:26.0	Staying in America.
1:28.0	I'm not going to open it.
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