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GulfCoast66

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7. By fall there will be even fewer cases. Way fewer. Absent a new resistant strain.

Reply to paleotn (Reply #6)

Sun May 23, 2021, 12:39 AM

May 2021

By then 60-70% of Americans will be fully protected. That alone will reduce the virus in society by, well 60-70 percent.

And many of those unprotected will be in less sparsely populations.

Unless you don’t think the vaccine works we are done with the days of thousands of Americans dying daily due to the virus. And almost all who still do will be those who refuse the vaccine.

Personally, my sympathy well has run dry.

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New COVID-19 cases plummet to lowest levels since last June [View all] Omaha Steve May 2021 OP

This is indeed good news. Another way I can tell that things are definitely better is that abqtommy May 2021 #1

A lot of us on DU predicted that this would BigmanPigman May 2021 #2

I'm curious how the comparisons would look if last year's "hot spots," HUAJIAO May 2021 #3

Thanks you, President Biden & Vice President Harris. LudwigPastorius May 2021 #4

30,000 is still a lot of cases per day rurallib May 2021 #5

19,639 cases on Friday. speak easy May 2021 #8

How much of this is Summer and how much is vaccinations paleotn May 2021 #6

By fall there will be even fewer cases. Way fewer. Absent a new resistant strain. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #7

Projected 60 to 80% vaccinated in some states. Not in others. paleotn May 2021 #10

I share your lack of trust in the rubes. GulfCoast66 May 2021 #11

The pandemic peaked in January?? Did something happen in January... Beartracks May 2021 #9