Dr. Steve Lawrence is an infectious disease specialist at Washington University School of Medicine and Dr. Fred Buckhold, a SLU Care general internist at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital discuss what guidlines people should still follow as St. Louis County and City reopen some businesses next week.
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Dr. Lawrence says we need to do all the critical things we've been doing over the past month or so as May 18 draws near for St. Louis City and County residents. He says staying at home, social distancing, washing our hands really helped flatten the curve here.
In an ideal world, he'd like to see a couple of weeks of steadily declining new cases. But once we do start frequenting soon to re-open businesses, we should still wear masks, wash hands, and avoid crowds.
