Bloomberg reports an acceleration in doses administered as the winter travel conditions of mid-February abated:
The biggest gains came through this past weekend with a blockbuster three days of peak doses reported—2.2 million doses delivered on Friday and 2.4 million each on Saturday and Sunday. The push drove the seven-day average back to 1.6 million doses per day.
On Monday, the CDC reported 1.7 million doses administered.
Closer to home, it's beginning to seem almost routine to meet a neighbor and have them tell us that they've received one or even two doses. (Near my home, we have a lot of elderly neighbors, we are still among the young people in our area.)
Case loads still seem extremely high, but perhaps we don't expect those to drop immediately, as the vaccines continue to go to those who are most at risk of death, not those who are most commonly infected.
So hopefully we will soon begin to see an impact as hospitalization rates start to drop?
And then, since death rates are a 6-week trailing data point beyond hospitalization rates, we might see death rates start to drop by mid-April?
Something to hope for as the daffodils pop and the redbuds begin to send out their beautiful little pink flowers.
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