Northam extends executive order closing nonessential businesses and says the state will open in a three-phase plan

WRIC - channel 8 Richmond ^ | 5/4/20 | Amelia Heymann

[indthkr]

“I anticipate moving into phase I on the 15th,” he said.

Virginia Klansman governor planning to begin opening the same day as Andrew Cuomo in New York

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I hope businesses have a one (1) phase plan to move out of Virginia.

[Truth29]

It is always two weeks in the future. Northam is another oppressor who needs to fear the people rather than the other way around. The real question is how to make that happen short of violent revolution.

[iceskater]

These progressives are in their happy place - they have the power to tell people how to live their lives. Good God Almighty....

[VeniVidiVici]

In Maryland they are all in locations with huge populations of illegal immigrants.

[daniel1212]

Va’s and Md’s numbers are up near a thousand new cases a day, And now that is ensured to continue:

Virginia to begin double-counting multiple positive coronavirus cases
5/4/2020, 6:55:26 PM · by Factuality · 14 replies
Just The News ^
At a press conference on Friday, State Health Commissioner Norman Oliver gave an example of a single patient being tested four times for COVID-19. “What we’re doing now is, we’re counting all four tests,” Oliver said.
Virginia this week will begin counting multiple positive coronavirus tests in the same patient as new individual cases of the disease, a policy decision likely to significantly drive up reported case numbers in a state that has been relatively spared the worst of the pandemic so far.

Reached via email on Monday morning, Joe Macenka, a spokesman for Virginia’s COVID-19 Joint Information Command, confirmed that each positive case of the disease would be counted as a new case altogether.

Macenka said that repeat positive cases “are counted as separate cases only if the tests occur on different days. If [a Virginia resident] tested Monday and Tuesday and both are positive, that’s two positives.”

That policy may serve to sharply drive up case numbers, which may in turn significantly delay the re-opening of the state. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has stated that the state will begin its first phase of re-opening only when state officials have logged 14 straight days of declining case numbers and hospitalizations. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/virginia-begin-double-counting-positive-coronavirus-cases#digital-diary