WABE’s Week in Review: The Controversial Reopening
This week, Gov. Brian Kemp through Georgia into the national spotlight by announcing a plan that meant certain businesses able to reopen as early as Friday.
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On the Week in Review for April 20-26, WABE’s Managing Editor Alex Helmick showcases stories from our journalists on the partial reopening of Georgia’s economy. Gov. Brian Kemp announced some businesses like hair and nail salons, bowling alleys and tattoo shops can open April 24. And he caught a wide array of criticism for the decision.
Experts weigh in…
Georgia, especially Atlanta, has a number of health experts, who immediately urged caution.
Business owners and workers face a tough choice…
Do you open or do you stay closed? Is it worth it? Owners and workers have to decide what is best for them and their families, and as you can hear it is not an easy choice.
Why did Kemp do it? …
Our analysts on the podcast Political Breakfast have thoughts on why the Governor made the controversial decision. They say it comes down to his closeness with the business community.
Modeling a pandemic…
Data, trends, stats, curves, graphs, all things involved in what we are hearing from those in charge about how they’ve made their decision. But on our podcast Did You Wash Your Hands?, we heard from someone who actually studies such things.
A survivor’s story…
Mia Robinson is a survivor, not of Covid-19, but of Sickle Cell Disease and she continues to push forward even though the pandemic makes her life even more difficult.
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