COVID-19 Safety Grades for Businesses—A Possible Mitigation Tool

Abstract

Public discourse regarding coronavirus disease 2019 in the United States has transitioned to intense deliberation about the infeasibility of continuing to implement stay-at-home orders and uncertainty regarding whether socioculturally acceptable alternatives could be developed to manage COVID-19 with less severe economic repercussions. Besides ongoing scientific dialogue about the expansion of testing and tracing efforts, 1,2 comparatively little has been proposed in terms of tangible, but novel, complementary mitigation tactics, despite the national race to reopen. By late May, all states had started reopening, many without meeting recommended benchmarks, 3 while