25 May 2020 - Even as some states move to ease the lockdowns that have cost tens of millions of jobs and tipped the economy into recession, a safe return to normal life without a widely available COVID-19 vaccine is looking more difficult.

In South Korea and Germany, countries that were among the most effective at controlling initial outbreaks of COVID-19, rollbacks of lockdowns have been stymied by new flare-ups. 

As long as the virus lurks in people’s throats and on elevator panels, doorknobs, and subway-car poles, it is hard to see how the American economy can fully reopen.

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