Azar: U.S. Not Seeing Spike in CV Cases in Places That Are Reopening

Health Secretary Alex Azar said authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases as places reopen, but added that it was still too early to know https://t.co/Ed5kXACJjJ pic.twitter.com/5qUEaO3ZFf

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"We are seeing that in places that are opening, we're not seeing this spike in cases," Azar said [Sunday] on CNN's "State of the Union" program. "We still see spikes in some areas that are in fact close to very localized situations."

"These are very localized determinations. There should not be a one size fits all to reopening but reopen we must because it's not health versus the economy. It's health versus healthy," he said, adding there were serious health consequences to not reopening.