To cheering crowds, the first vaccine-packed trucks bound for U.S. destinations left Pfizer’s Michigan plant this past weekend. Elsewhere, planes ferrying COVID vaccines have landed. The vaccinations, similar to vaccinations that rid the U.S. of terrible scourges like polio and smallpox, have begun.
Though it will take many months to protect a significant amount of the populace — and perhaps return us to some “normality” sometime in 2021 — scientific ingenuity is responsible for the rapid creation of a vaccine (with more to come) that proved both safe and effective in major tests. Yet it’s not just the vaccine that should be celebrated. Beginning in March when the outbreak ramped up in the U.S., infectious disease experts had a strong grip on how the pathogen would spread — and how to slow its spread. (Regrettably, not everyone listened.) Read more…
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