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Democracy Dies in Darkness

After outcry, Arizona restores partnership with team projecting increased coronavirus cases

By Isaac Stanley-Becker

May 7, 2020 at 7:24 p.m. EDT

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) listens as President Trump speaks during a tour of a Honeywell International plant that manufactures personal protective equipment in Phoenix on Tuesday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Arizona reversed course on Thursday and resumed a partnership with epidemiologists whose projections suggest the state may be moving too rapidly to reopen businesses as cases of the novel coronavirus mount.

The turnaround, after a public outcry, marked the latest chapter in a skirmish over data and public policy that reflects the anguished national debate over how to incorporate scientific expertise to protect both lives and livelihoods during a pandemic that has killed more than 75,000 Americans and thrown 33 million out of work.