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At a minimum, we’re going to be doing this well into 2021. By June or July of 2021, you may have most of the population vaccinated. As we turn the corner halfway through 2021, getting into the summer and fall, I would predict that we’re going to be approaching a certain degree of normality—not completely, because we’re still going to have some coronavirus circulating around, but it’s not going to be something that’s immobilizing society the way it currently is.

Journalist Bob Woodward says the president intentionally understated the severity of the pandemic in the spring. What do you make of this?