STAT FIRST OPINION 5 scenarios for containing the Covid-19 pandemic and returning to a ‘new normal’ By MENACHEM FROMER, SARAH POOLE, and ROBERT M. CALIFF JANUARY 6, 2021 “When will this pandemic be over so we can return to normal life and an open economy?” As researchers who have been carefully following this global health crisis, that’s a question we are often asked by friends, family, and colleagues. While no one can predict the future with high accuracy, many experts are optimistic that...

This is very interesting! From the story: Looking ahead, we have applied a probabilistic agent-based version of our model to provide insight into potential future outcomes that are applicable at all levels — an individual business or university, a county, a state, and the like. Critical determinants of what may happen include:

I wonder if this article is inaccurate. It may conflate sex with child care responses. I have been a stay at home grand parent care caregiver. That task greatly limited my employment choices.

Around 10 million U.S. mothers living with their own school-age children were not actively working in January — 1.4 million more than during the same month last year, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.