Although the FDA has now approved the Moderna vaccine for emergency use in the fight against COVID-19 neither it nor the Pfizer vaccine will slow the spread of COVID-19 or hospitalizations anytime soon.
On the same day Moderna was approved for use in the United States, this country topped the 17 million mark with regard to COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 17,176,976 COVID-19 cases along with 310,291 deaths. This represents a mortality rate of 1.8%.
I suppose we can take some small measure of comfort that it took five days to go from 16 to 17 million cases as opposed to the four days it took to get from 15 million to 16 million. But that comfort is colder than the temperatures required to store the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines as we add more than a million new COVID-19 cases each week. Since October 30th, the U.S. has recorded more than 8 million new COVID-19 cases nearly doubling the national total in less than seven weeks.
There are two weeks left in 2020. We've had more disease and death than we can bear but we are going to bear some more in our final fortnight even with the hope of two vaccines.
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