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States try to balance economic crisis, public health threat

Governors try to balance economic crisis with public health threat

04/17/2020

PBS News Hour

States try to balance economic crisis, public health threat

Clip: 4/17/2020 | 4m 35sVideo has Closed Captions

Governors try to balance economic crisis with public health threat

President Trump has shared a plan states can use to decide when to lift restrictions on movement and economic activity. But some governors say testing for COVID-19 isn’t near the levels necessary to enable them to reopen. Meanwhile, global health experts expressed doubts about whether the presence of COVID-19 antibodies in a person’s blood means they are immune to reinfection. John Yang reports.

04/17/2020

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