Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?
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As states begin to reopen, Americans are looking at any trip outside through the lens of contagion. Is it safe to go back to Starbucks? What about the gym? Nail salons are out of the question, right?
The country faces an ugly trade-off. Keep the economy closed and prolong the economic misery. Or open up the economy and risk a resurgence of Covid-19, undoing the gains earned through weeks of social isolation.
We believe there’s another option.
By Katherine Baicker, Oeindrila Dube, Sendhil Mullainathan, Devin Pope and Gus Wezerek | 6 May 2020
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