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loupnoir

Getting Ready for the New Normal Holidays

Nov 21, 2020 17:56

Whatever plans I had half formed for the weeks around Thanksgiving were rolled back when my county retreated from red to purple COVID status. Well, I knew winter was going to bring another spike, but dammit, we had barely moved into a less restrictive tier. How many months before either of the vaccines is available? My guess is probably around ( Read more... )

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thistle_chaser November 30 2020, 05:00:03 UTC

Supposedly the vaccine is going to be available in a couple weeks... but just to doctors and high risk folks. Last I heard, it will trickle down to the rest of us experts say "expects there to be enough vaccine doses starting in the second quarter of 2021 so that anyone who wants a vaccine can get it. Other federal health officials have said in the spring or summer". So sometime in summer is a good guess?

The problem becomes that something like 45% of people say they won't get it, and who knows how long it takes to kick in (right away??).

So tl;dr, I think you might be right.