My brother in law is an MD in New York. He is an academic and did not have to be on the front lines. He thinks that the general consensus is to begin allowing the health system to get back up and running as long as there are adequate PPEs and tests. This is more a matter of balancing the necessity with the burden. People with bulging discs need their steroid shots. People are waiting on cancer surgeries. And so on. As long as the health care providers and patients can be tested, there is little risk.
For the rest of the economy, it is way too early for most states to be loosening any further restrictions. Most states have plateaued with only a few seeing a consistent decline. All the sacrifices that went into the lockdowns could be very quickly wiped out if states are not able to effectively test and trace and allow new outbreaks to emerge. The end of May will end up looking a lot like the end of March with exponential spread in many places. A few more weeks to really get the virus under control is way better than being back to square one in a few weeks with another possibly even longer lockdown in store.
