US could start reopening in May, top virus advisor saysMedical personnel move a deceased patient to a refrigerated truck serving as a makeshift morgues at Brooklyn Hospital Center on April 9, 2020WASHINGTON - The United States may be ready to start gradually reopening next month, the government's top infectious diseases expert said Sunday, as signs grew that the coronavirus pandemic is peaking. "I think it could probably start at least in some ways maybe next month," Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN. "We are hoping by the end of the month we can look around and say, okay, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on?" Fauci said that regions would be ready at different times rather than the United States turning on a "light switch." "But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then," said Fauci, without naming Trump.

Source: Bangkok Post April 12, 2020 15:00 UTC