The Governors Of America Are Taking Control While The President Fails

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The Governors Of America Are Taking Control While The President Fails

On Monday, the governors of Washington, California, and Oregon announced to the press that they are working on a joint plan for the reopening of their states’ respective economies once it is safe to lift covid-related regulations and restrictions.

“COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities,” Oregon’s Kate Brown, California’s Gavin Newsom, and Washington’s Jay Inslee said in a statement Monday.

“We are announcing that California, Oregon, and Washington have agreed to work together on a shared approach for reopening our economies – one that identifies clear indicators for communities to restart public life and business,” they added.

The plan will focus on vulnerable populations at sites such as long-term care facilities, building up hospital surge capacity even as the pandemic starts receding, countering the diseases’ indirect effects on disadvantaged communities and ensuring a fail-proof testing system, tracking and isolation of patients remains place after restrictions are gradually lifted.

COVID-19 doesn’t follow state or national boundaries,” the governors added, saying they will also each develop state-specific plans. “It will take every level of government, working together, and a full picture of what’s happening on the ground.”

The West Coast of the country has been one of the most affected regions in the country during the early stages of the outbreak and is home to the first areas that imposed aggressive social distancing measures, it has seen some hopeful signs but leaders strongly encourage citizens to continue maintaining social distancing to continue this trajectory.

California has had 21,794 confirmed cases of the virus and 651 deaths from the virus as of Monday, while Oregon has had 1,527 cases and 52 deaths, and Washington has had 10,224 cases and 491 cases.

On the same day, a coalition of governors in the Northeast unveiled a similar pact.

“We didn’t start with a timetable. We said want it ASAP, but we want it smart. This is about being smart first, not political,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

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