States are opening up as their COVID-19 numbers rise
When will things reopen? The answer is complicated. (Unsplash/)The United States continues to be the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with cases of the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, in December still sharply on the rise in many parts of the country. More than 1.25 million cases had been confirmed in the US as of Friday. COVID-19 has so far killed at least 75,700 people across the country.While cases are leveling out or even declining in several states—including New York and New Jersey, which were previously major hotspots for the novel coronavirus—daily diagnoses are on the rise in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, Tennessee, Iowa, Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, Maine, West Virginia, Vermont, and Washington, DC, according to tracking by The New York Times. But even as COVID-19 spreads, some states are moving to loosen their...