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.
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IMAGE: This rotating image shows the detailed structure of a spike from a coronavirus that causes cold symptoms - a milder relative of the virus that causes COVID-19. Spikes bind to. view more
Credit: K. Zhang et al., Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics Discovery, 2020
Coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19 are studded with protein spikes that bind with receptors on the cells of their victims - the first step in infection. Now scientists have made the first detailed images of those spikes in their natural state, while still attached to the virus and without using chemical fixatives that might distort their shape.
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.”