When Is It Safe To Ease Social Distancing? Here's What One Model Says For Each State
When Is It Safe To Ease Social Distancing? Here's What One Model Says For Each State Enlarge this image toggle caption Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated April 28, 5:00 p.m. IHME's answer: 1 new infection per million people in a given state. Sponsor Message IHME's team built a model to forecast when each state will reach that threshold of 1 new infection per million. Among the implications is that a locality where infections are down to 1 per million might nonetheless need far more testing capacity than IHME's current approach suggests because officials will need to ensure that workers returning to jobs in crowded industries — such as meatpacking plants — are not asymptomatic spreaders of the disease.
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