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Our country is facing one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. The lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans are now at stake from an invisible enemy: the coronavirus and COVID-19.

The National Coronavirus Recovery Commission is bringing together some of the nation’s top experts and thinkers to offer their specialized experience and expertise to chart the path ahead.

Our mission is to save both lives and livelihoods, helping to navigate our nation through this crisis and toward recovery. Specifically, we will address when and how to begin to get Americans’ lives “back to normal” again.

The National Coronavirus Recovery Commission will provide the American people and their policymakers with a set of recommendations for how to make this happen. In a series of meetings over the course of the month of April, during President Trump’s announced “30 Days to Slow the Spread,” the commission will be weighing what comes next and how to move prudently toward recovery through addressing two primary issues:

· First, how to weigh the competing factors associated with crisis mitigation.

· Second, how to determine the best way to transition to recovery and restoring normal lives — Americans’ ability to go about their usual days; see families, friends and communities; return to work.

The challenge at hand is a public health crisis with unprecedented implications. At this point in the progression of COVID-19, good public health policy is good policy: Americans’ normal lives will rebound when the American people are healthy and confident in the public health response.

Decisions that policymakers are considering will significantly impact the scope of this crisis and the duration of social restrictions, economic hardship, recovery, and the potential permanent effects.