The Next Year (or Two) of the Pandemic

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As President Trump urges states to begin reopening their economies, a debate is raging over when and how to end lockdowns across the country. Our reporter spoke to dozens of public health experts to try to understand our path out of lockdown — and how our world will change in the meantime. Guest: Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and health reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: While the economy is likely to reopen slowly, there is hope that society will adapt to manage the uncertainty of our new circumstances. Here’s what experts say the next year (or more) will look like.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.6	This is The Daily.
0:35.6	Today, as President Trump urges states to begin reopening their economies, a debate begins
0:48.0	over when and how to end the lockdowns.
1:01.4	Science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. on what that might look like.
1:02.7	It's Monday, April 20.
1:09.4	So Donald, we have come to you at just about every turn in this pandemic to understand
1:14.8	what's next.
1:21.8	You told us all the way back in February to prepare for lockdowns.
1:25.6	Those happened.
1:26.6	You told us to prepare for high death rates.
1:29.2	You said that people we know would die.
1:31.8	And that, sadly, has happened.
1:34.1	You warned us of shortages of medical supplies that too has happened.
1:38.3	Just about everything you said would happen has more or less happened.
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