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US states improvise rules to combat coronavirus in absence of federal leadership

Trump did not issue guidelines until Monday, leaving it up to patchwork of state and local authorities to decide on rules

In Ohio and Massachusetts they closed restaurants and bars, in Florida they closed beaches and at least 32 states closed schools.

The emergency measures brought in across America to combat coronavirus have all been slightly different from state to state – but for weeks they have had one thing in common: nobody was acting on guidelines issued by the federal government, because there weren’t any.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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