Gary Cohn: ‘Worst Thing’ Would Be to Rush Reopening and Go Back to 97% of People at Home

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COHN: “Look, the American population has done a very good job listening to the government and staying at home and removing themselves from the work force and removing themselves from the economy. That’s been very important to flatten the curve and we’ve had better results than we once forecasted. That’s really good. Now we have to think about restarting our economy but not restarting the infection cycle. And that’s important. So I think a successful return would be very methodically bringing people back into the work force in smaller groups and seeing what happens. Making sure people don’t become reinfected. And if we have a reinfection rate, slowing that back down or stopping the re-emergence into the economy. The worst thing that could happen would be for us to throw everyone back into the economic cycle and have to go back to having 97 percent of our people being told to stay home again. We’re much better off to go through this slowly than to go through it quickly and have to stop again."