Natalie Dean, assistant professor of biostatistics at Emory: “The goal is to reduce sickness and death to levels below which people feel safe resuming normal activities. … Easing up on restrictions will be a constant readjustment, as the virus can continue to throw curveballs at us. I can see vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and routine testing sticking around for a while, as well as masks in crowded public indoor spaces while transmission levels are high.”
