President Biden’s announcement that there will be enough vaccines for all adults by May is raising hopes\u00a0the U.S. could soon return to\u00a0a semblance of normalcy.<\/p>\n
But the next few months in the pandemic are critical.<\/p>\n
Concern is growing over moves by some states to lift restrictions\u00a0even as new variants of the virus are on the rise in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Health officials are\u00a0calling for restrictions to remain in place for the final stretch, saying that it will not be much longer before the situation markedly improves. It doesn’t make sense to lift the restrictions now, they say, when widespread vaccinations are almost within reach.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tsai, a researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said that by summer, \u201cI think we can have a much more, I don\u2019t want to say normal, but at least a ‘new normal’ summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The near term is risky and uncertain:\u00a0<\/strong>Experts warn that the return to normal could actually be delayed if restrictions are lifted too soon, causing a new spike in cases in the near term.<\/p>\n Tsai likened the current situation to the seventh inning stretch of a baseball game.<\/p>\n \u201cProgress has been made; it\u2019s OK to take stock of that,\u201d he said. \u201cHow we play the next two innings determines if this is a single game or turns into a doubleheader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Biden’s announcement that there will...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32383,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions\/32383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}