Opinion: We're retreating to a new strategy on COVID-19. Let's call it what it is.

Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, has warned of “needless suffering and death” if reopening occurs prematurely. No state has met the White House’s own reopening criteria, yet more than 40 of them have loosened or are loosening social distancing restrictions. So here’s the question I would have asked the witnesses at Tuesday’s Senate coronavirus hearing: Have we formally retreated from a goal of containing covid-19 to one of harm reduction?