"There are blueprints that will allow businesses and schools to open safely. If they follow these blueprints it will be possible to operate safely," Robert Schooley, a professor of medicine with the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego, told Xinhua.
He said in some places in the country, it is likely that businesses will do very well. But in others, where public health measures are not taken seriously, the population will be at a "significantly increased risk" for a resurgence of the disease.
"The priorities need to be helping the public understand that the virus is real, the outbreak is real, the deaths are real... and that we do know what works to control SARS-CoV-2," Schooley told Xinhua.
He cited New Zealand as an example, saying it has virtually eliminated the virus from the entire country using science-based public policies that were consistently articulated by convincing political leaders and assiduously followed by the vast majority of the population.
"At the end of the day if the public does not see the threat real, the countermeasures we know from experience that work will not be adopted by enough of the public to end the epidemic," he said.
According to Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa, the United States might not see a "turning point" for a year.
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