The continued drop in new virus cases has coincided with a bottoming out in some of the real-time activity data, and the evidence from last year suggests that activity could bounce back rapidly when containment measures are scaled back in earnest. But states are likely to be more cautious when lifting restrictions this time around, in which case the recovery will be much more gradual than it was in the second half of last year.
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