Many experts are beginning to coalesce around a set of benchmarks that could help determine when it might be safe to reopen parts of the country.... But even though most areas of the United States are nowhere near achieving the goals necessary to do so, there has been a push to relax social distancing soon. Even more alarming, some experts say even those still-not-yet-achieved goals aren’t close to enough.... Every time they identify an infection, they commit to determining its origin in two h

U.S. coronavirus cases tracker and map ArrowRight The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has weighed in for the first time in a detailed science report released with little fanfare Friday evening.... The report also notes that there is no test authorized by the Food and Drug Administration that would enable doctors and the public to reliably measure an individual’s protection from disease.... Some Republican members of Congress have seized on what they term “ natural immunity ” to push

Adding fuel to the latest controversy on the right--just as he did when he supported protesters at state capitols who rebelled against their states' lockdowns--Trump tried to assert authority he does not have as part of his relentless push for normalcy.... Neither the President nor his press secretary explained Friday how he plans to follow through on his threat to governors, which he issued shortly before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released voluntary recommendations for rel