What comes next? The coronavirus end game will require massive testing and – maybe – high-tech tracking

A model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to Covid-19. Experts believe one way to check the spread of the virus would be the use of digital tracking, via cellphone data, to almost instantaneously alert people who were exposed to someone newly diagnosed as positive. Digital tracking was a powerful tool in controlling the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in China, South Korea and other Asian nations. — NEXU Science Communication/Reuters

A month into social distancing, and with at least three more weeks to go, people hunkered down across Washington to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus are surely wondering: When is this going to end? And what comes next?

Health officials and epidemiologists are asking themselves the same questions.