Max Nisen, Columnist

Here Are the States Where Reopening Is Riskiest

The data suggest all of them court trouble by jumping the gun.

May 7, 2020 at 4:50 PM UTC

Max Nisen is a healthcare analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He previously wrote for Bloomberg Opinion, Quartz and Business Insider.

Is Colorado really ready for this?
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More than a dozen states loosened lockdowns in the past week even though many have yet to fully control the spread of Covid-19.

The consequences won’t be visible in the data on infections for some time, because loosened state restrictions take time to generate more human contacts and infections, the coronavirus takes time to incubate, and tests take time to process. Yet there’s already reason to worry that several states are reopening too soon.