In move to reopen, counties in St. Louis area take varying paths
Since then, two
And on Wednesday, the head of the
The piecemeal reopening is emblematic of differing opinions on how to deal with the virus across sectors including politics, science, business and health.
"The numbers (of coronavirus cases) simply cannot justify what is impacting everybody's lives right now," Franklin County Presiding Commissioner
But state rules still in place limiting the size of gatherings blunted the immediate effect.
On Tuesday, the executives for
All three have infection rates less than half of those in
Among the
A 14-day rolling average of new cases in
A county health department spokeswoman did not respond Wednesday to emailed questions about the statistics.
At a
The county's peak occurred
Ehlmann has stressed that businesses in
Another pillar for reopening, according to health officials, is the availability of widespread testing, but those numbers are hard to come by on a county level. Private labs don't report their testing statistics to local officials, and the state doesn't yet report coronavirus tests by county.
Dr.
Parson on Wednesday said he would reevaluate the situation if coronavirus cases spike.
Garza was asked Wednesday whether the reopening of some counties in the region could undermine others. "Any time you do something that increases the probability of transmission you're always worried about the number of cases that come along with it. But really the key is how do we decrease the rate of transmission," he said.
One of the many communities chafing at restrictions that have cost millions of jobs around the country is
On Wednesday,
Parson said, "If you're within a city, within a county, and they've got that order in place, you're going to follow that county rule."
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