Comments by "Darlene" (@darlene2709) on "Rare Breakthrough COVID Cases Show Vaccines' Effectiveness At Preventing Severe Illness" video.

  1. Now that we know how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and vaccines are available, it will be difficult to sympathize with anyone who gets COVID-19 because they refuse to be vaccinated for anything other than a legitimate reason.
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  2. The first 100,000 U.S. deaths were confirmed by May 27; it then took four months for the nation to log another 100,000 deaths. The latest 100,000 deaths occurred over a span of about three months. The next 100,000 Americans to die, many public health experts believe, may do so in closer to one month. “I am floored at how much worse it is than what I expected,” said Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a highly effective vaccine last week offers a new tool to slow — or even stop — the virus’s onslaught if it becomes widely distributed early next year. But “the people who are going to die in late December and early January will already have been infected by then,” Dr. Jha said. “It’s going to be very hard to avoid hitting 400,000 within a month after hitting 300,000.” Read the full article in the New York Times. Dec. 14, 2020
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