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I can remember before the vaccine that a group of us, outside, at least 6 feet from each other and masked, were speaking with a neighbor who was working at the NIH remotely from VT. Someone asked how things could return to normal.

He said a vaccine which would get enough people resistant to Covid and treatments that were tested and worked. It was the hard work of scientists and doctors that did this and made life better.

You can quibble over whether some states were too cautious as the first vaccines made infection less, but still significant. It makes no sense to argue vaccines were not a game changer.

A comparison of death rates from Covid in the period after the vaccine became available shows a very strong correlation to the percent vaccinated.