Listen: What Will the Summer Be Like?
On this episode of Social Distance, staff writer Ed Yong joins Katherine Wells and James Hamblin to discuss his most recent article, “Our Pandemic Summer.”
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: My birthday is July 23. I was hoping you might be able to walk me through what that day might look like.
Ed Yong: We’re not going to be in this severe state of lockdown in perpetuity. It will start lifting at some point. But every health expert I spoke to is very clear: This is going to be a lingering problem. Your birthday is an interesting timeframe because that is probably going to be past the point when this first wave has peaked and starts to abate, so some of the restrictions we’re seeing now are going to lift. We can expect some elements of our once-familiar life to resume, but not all of them.
So on my birthday, I wake
