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the U.S. is still far from a full reopening. Many states have put a temporary pause on moving to the next stage of reopening, or have even reversed course and closed certain businesses again due to surges in the disease. In order to determine the states with the fewest coronavirus restrictions, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 17 key metrics. Our data set ranges from whether restaurants are opened to whether the state has required face masks in public and workplace temperature screenings. Read on for the state ranking, additional insight from a panel of...

The coronavirus shouldn’t make you hold it. Public restrooms, along with 13 other activities and destinations, were evaluated for their likelihood of spreading the coronavirus (COVID-19) in a series of NPR interviews with epidemiologists. “There are all sorts of things that you can catch from other people’s poop, and you almost never do, because they’re set up with all hard surfaces that can be cleaned," Landon told NPR. Small restrooms, or those on the outside of highwayside gas stations do pose higher riskers, Landon told NPR. And overall, the use of public restrooms is assessed as “low to medium risk"...