Although many states in the U.S. that have quarantined have been helping slow down the spreadof the coronavirus pandemic, coronavirus experts are saying that we still have a long way to go till we can “go back to normal.”
A new piece in The New York Times Magazinethat ran over the weekend pointed out that while the country will begin to restart the economy in stages, “big communal gatherings” will be the last types of social situations that will return.
“Larger gatherings — conferences, concerts, sporting events — when people say they’re going to reschedule this conference or graduation event for October 2020, I have no idea how they think that’s a plausible possibility. I think those things will be the last to return. Realistically we’re talking fall 2021 at the earliest,”saidZeke Emanuel, a Center For American Progress oncologist...