Top infectious disease expert says "rolling reentry" of U.S. economy possible as soon as next month

Source: Xinhua | 2020-04-14

A partial reopening of the U.S. economy could begin in May, Anthony Fauci, director of the country's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Sunday, while cautioning that there is potential for a second COVID-19 outbreak in the fall.

Parts of the U.S. economy could have "a gradual reentry of some sort of normality, some rolling reentry," Fauci said on CNN's "State of the Union."

"There is always a possibility as we get into next fall and beginning of early winter that we can see a rebound," he added.

Meanwhile, the path of U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could be a "long, hard road," a senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Sunday.

"This could be a long, hard road that we have ahead of us until we get to either an effective therapy or a vaccine. It's hard for me to see a V-shaped recovery under that scenario," Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, told CBS's "Face the Nation."

The United States has become the country with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities worldwide.

According to a running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, the United States has reported over 557,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths.