CDC director says US ready to reopen, predicts thousands more contact tracers

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday that he believes the U.S. is ready to begin reopening, even as he acknowledged the need to invest further in the nation’s public health infrastructure and expand contact tracing to avoid sustained outbreaks.”I want to clarify that the community-based transmission, the community-to-community transmission that overwhelmed the public health departments in late February,…