Modern Healthcare March 28, 2020
The coronavirus couldn’t care less if you live in a red state or a blue state. Yet states across the U.S. are taking dramatically different approaches to controlling the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19.
Republican governors in densely populated states like Texas and Florida are resisting imposition of stay-at-home orders, even as their caseloads equal or exceed states like Illinois and New Jersey, which have taken such steps.
President Donald Trump has tacitly endorsed their approach by repeatedly saying he wants the country to get back to work by Easter. “Look, you’re going to lose a number of people to the flu,” he said on Fox News. “But you’re going to lose more people by putting a country into...