Donald, McNeil Jr. “The Coronavirus in America: The year ahead” The New York Times, Apr. 2020. Web. 13 Oct. 2020

This article says that no one knows where this crisis is taking us. More than 20 experts in public health, medicine, epidemiology, and history have shared their thoughts on the future in in-depth interviews. When can we leave the house? How soon, really, before treatment or vaccination? How will we contain the virus? Some believed that American ingenuity, when fully utilized, could well lead to burden-relieving successes. The way forward depends on factors that are certainly difficult, but doable: a carefully thought-out approach to re-discovery, extensive testing and surveillance, effective treatment, adequate resources for health care providers, and ultimately an effective vaccine, Dr. Harvey W. Feinberg said:

“We face a doleful future”(qtd. in article)

He is a former president of the National Academy of Medicine. The author believes that people will be in isolation for several months, and some even longer.  Most experts believed that after the crisis, the country and its economy would quickly revive. The author turns to President Donald Trump with the words that everything he said, unfortunately, came true and there was a shortage of medicines, a high death rate. Therefore, he asks a question to the president. When and how will we begin to rediscover our society and what it will look like.

On some issues I fully agree with the text. I also think it is not possible to predict where this epidemic will lead us. If more than half of the population is in isolation, then I think that the economy will not be possible. And although many states have already opened up and many businesses are starting to work, still the economy has not yet reached the level it was before the pandemic. Of course, now, when there is a new wave, it is difficult to predict what the society expects in the future. Will our medicine cope, or will we lose many again? Indeed, such a rapid spread of infection is very scary for the world’s population. Especially when there are not enough medical facilities for everyone who is sick. I, as well as the author, hope for American ingenuity that it will still be possible to invent a vaccine for this terrible virus, thereby stopping the pandemic. After all, cases of repeated infection with this virus are already known, which means that the immunity to it is not persistent. This article helped answer one question, “How have urban growth and mass migration influenced the spread of dangerous diseases?” You can see that in large cities there are a large percentage of cases, as well as deaths. The same can be said about New York. I think that this article is intended for a wide readership, although there are many pessimistic-minded statements in it. For example:

 â€śYou told us to prepare for high mortality. You said that the people we know are going to die, and that unfortunately happened. You warned us about the shortage of medicines. This also happened. Almost everything that you said was going to happen more or less happened. ” (qtd. in article)

All the same, I, like the author, want to hope that. Most experts believed that after overcoming the crisis, the country and its economy will quickly revive robots. Thus, ensuring human safety. I think that the genre chosen by the author is quite truthful and reliable. All the same, the answer to the main question of the article

 â€śAnd let’s start with the question that, I think, is on everyone’s mind now: when and how we will begin to re-discover our society and how it will look” (qtd. in article)

has not yet been found.