Remember when you lost your job for two months?
According to a Center for Disease Control official that may soon become reality again very soon.
CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, Jay Butler, said, "Right now, communities are experiencing different levels of transmission, and this is occurring as they gradually ease up on some of the community mitigation efforts and gradually reopen."
He also said, "these decisions should “be made locally based on what is happening within the community regarding disease transmission."
As of Saturday afternoon, there have been over 2 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 115,251 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
There’s been “recent growth in newly reported cases” of the coronavirus in 21 states over a two-week period, Forbes reported Monday.
Butler noted there are a number of factors that can be attributed to those increases.
“Sometimes an increase is driven by increased availability of testing, sometimes it’s driven by outbreaks, and we have seen outbreaks in certain occupational settings, in long-term care facilities,” he said.
A nearly empty street is seen in Times Square in New York, U.S., on Thursday, June 11, 2020. New York streets got a little more congested this week as the city entered Phase 1 of its re-opening from the coronavirus-imposed lockdown. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images