The Pfizer vaccine has received emergency FDA approval and distribution in the United States will begin this weekend. The Moderna vaccine is expected to follow within two weeks.
The amount of hope that this news brings is hard for me to quantify. Thanks to a complete absence of national leadership, the pandemic is worse than ever in the U.S. at this moment. We are averaging one million new cases a day; deaths are approaching 1,000 a day. In New Jersey, with a population just below 9 million, things are better but we are struggling as well, with somewhere between four and six thousand new cases each day.
There is still a long and dark Winter before us but this vaccine news feels like a faint but steady light at the end of a very long tunnel.
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