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Two new road maps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns

One new roadmap to end coronavirus lockdowns suggests they could ease up in June, at the earliest.
Patients wait in line for a Covid-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York.

With Covid-19 racing through the country, the United States is virtually locked down. At the same time, the yearning among Americans to reopen their communities grows, as does their desire to return to some semblance of normality.

In an effort to chart a path toward that goal, public health experts laid out two new roadmaps over the weekend.

The first, from Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy expert and vice-provost of the University of Pennsylvania, suggests lockdowns could ease up in June. , from former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb and colleagues, doesn’t set a date, but rather outlines the evidence that communities would need to begin lifting some of the more draconian restrictions.

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