As the US total of COVID-19 cases reached 571,694, including 23,036 deaths, six East Coast governors announced a new partnership to reopen their states' economies safely in the following weeks and months.New York's Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey's Phil Murphy, Connecticut's Ned Lamont, Pennsylvania's Tom Wolf, Delaware's John Carney, and Rhode Island's Gina Raimondo said their six states were interconnected in terms of commuters and commerce, so a regional reopening made the most sense.According to CNN, each state will name a public health official and an economic official to the group, and each governor's chief of staff will also be in the group.Cuomo announced the partnership during a conference call from his daily briefing in Albany."We are in