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May 11, 2020Updated 1:47 p.m. ETMillions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin. So dozens of states, seeking to ease the pain, are coming out of lockdown.Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus…

Here’s what that entails. A smartphone belonging to Drew Grande, 40, of Cranston, Rhode Island, shows notes he made for contact tracing on Wednesday. Steve Senne/AP This article is part of Privacy in the Pandemic, a Future Tense series. As Americans enter the second month of coronavirus isolation, experts are thinking through what systems we’ll…

Singapore, renowned for its careful testing, contact tracing and isolation of patients, saw only 10 deaths out of 4,427 cases through April 16. That yields a strikingly low case fatality rate of 0.2 percent, about twice the rate of seasonal influenza.In the United States, the case fatality rate has steadily ticked upward, from about 1.35…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A growing wave of rallies are taking place across the country as protesters demand that state governments lift their orders closing businesses and public places as soon as possible, even as officials urge caution to prevent a resurgence of coronavirus.These Americans say…