Trends that will define 2021 and beyond: Six months on

In January 2021, McKinsey & Company made a series of projections about trends that would characterize 2021 and the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, some countries have rolled out widespread COVID-19-vaccination efforts; in others, there have been reverses. Circumstances have changed.
Six months later, they have updated our work, with a focus on the United States. As an advanced economy that’s now largely open, it can to some degree be seen as a bellwether for post-pandemic trends.