There is hope in a lift of COVID restrictions. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna pumped out vaccines at record rates. Both vaccines are over 94% effective.
About 10.6 million Americans have received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the New York Times as of Jan. 29.
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, in order for normalcy to return, 75% of the United States population will have to be vaccinated.
Michael Webster-Clark, researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said he believes restrictions will begin lifting mid to late summer this year.
As of Jan. 31, almost 400,000 vaccine doses have been administered in Louisiana. Side effects from the vaccine are extremely limited. Everything seems to be going according to plan.
Updated December 19, 2020 6:34 p.m. EST
By Tara Parker-Pope, Claire Cain Miller, Margot Sanger-Katz and Quoctrung Bui, New York Times
The United States moved one step closer to getting back to normal this past week with the first COVID vaccinations of health care workers around the country. While the majority of Americans won’t get their shots until spring, the vaccine rollout is a hopeful sign of better days ahead. We asked Dr. Anthony Fauci as well as several public health researchers and health and science writers for The New York Times for their predictions about the months ahead. Here’s what they had to say.
The United States moved one step closer to getting back to normal this week with the first Covid vaccinations of health care workers around the country. While the majority of Americans won’t get their shots until spring, the vaccine rollout is a hopeful sign of better days ahead. We asked Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, as well as several epidemiologists and health and science writers for The Times, for their predictions about the months ahead. Here’s what they had to say.
What advice do you have for families eager to celebrate the holidays with their loved ones?
“Do it by Zoom. Don’t let Junior come home and kill Grandma. Think of this like World War II our soldiers didn’t get to fly home to eat turkey. My father was at Normandy. My mother was with the Red Cross in occupied Austria. They missed the holidays. Life went on. There were happier years later.”