{"id":24246,"date":"2020-04-30T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24246"},"modified":"2020-04-30T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:08:24","slug":"dc-health-chief-says-city-may-not-reopen-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24246","title":{"rendered":"DC health chief says city may not reopen for three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has expressed optimism that cities and states can quickly lift restrictions and reopen their economies shuttered by the pandemic. But on Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. officials took a much more measured view, saying the hope is for a limited return to normal in the nation\u2019s capital in late May \u2014 but that it could also be delayed into the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-W6imKBr-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public townhall discussion<\/a>\u00a0for Bowser\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.dc.gov\/reopendc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reopen D.C. Advisory Group<\/a>, which has been created to chart a course for how and when to reopen the city. While the current stay-at-home order is set to expire on May 15, a presentation used by D.C. Department of Health director LaQuandra Nesbitt cautioned that \u201copening non-essential businesses before May 25th will most likely create a second, larger peak of infections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has expressed optimism that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24247,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24246\/revisions\/24247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}