Health
Vaccines offer hope for end to pandemic, but brutal months lie ahead – The Washington Post
By early next year, there could be more than a million doses administered every day in the U.S. But it will take time to change the trajectory of the epidemic.
The vaccine has not come in time to do much about the winter wave, said Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washingtons Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Vaccination is coming too late even if we do a really great job of scale-up. Its coming too late to do much by March 1, or really by April 1. Only at that point, he added, will the widespread distribution of vaccines begin to crush the virus.
In the meantime, the country faces what could turn out to be the most challenging…
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