Economics
Confidence Called Key Ingredient for Robust Post-Covid Economy
- Policy-makers say reopening is more than flinging doors open
- Testing, therapies and finally vaccines all part of process
A nearly empty Lasalle Street is seen in Chicago, Illinois, on May 7.
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“Confidence” is the secret sauce needed for Americans to get back to public life once the deadly coronavirus pandemic ebbs and as restrictions on movement are gradually lifted.
A range of policy-makers and elected officials spoke Sunday of what it will take to get the economy moving again as weeks of mandatory shelter-in-place orders give way to a tentative reopening, even as thousands of new cases are diagnosed each day.