Updated December 19, 2020 6:34 p.m. EST
By Tara Parker-Pope, Claire Cain Miller, Margot Sanger-Katz and Quoctrung Bui, New York Times
The United States moved one step closer to getting back to normal this past week with the first COVID vaccinations of health care workers around the country. While the majority of Americans won’t get their shots until spring, the vaccine rollout is a hopeful sign of better days ahead. We asked Dr. Anthony Fauci as well as several public health researchers and health and science writers for The New York Times for their predictions about the months ahead. Here’s what they had to say.