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Predictions for Pandemic Recovery
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The combination of vaccine availability and people beginning to book hotel spaces for next summer indicate a hopeful recovery from the pandemic in the third or fourth quarter of 2021 as discussed in the New York Times article "Politics Science and the Remarkable Race for Coronavirus Vaccine."
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