COVID trends: encouraging
Hmm. This is heartening news that needs to hold up over time.
U.S. health officials report that the rate of infection from COVID-19 is declining. Same for hospitalization rates. And for death rates. All are spiraling downward.
Meanwhile, the vaccination rate is going in the other direction. The Biden administration has ramped up its efforts to get more Americans inoculated against the virus. President Biden has issued executive orders mandating businesses to require vaccinations among employees; federal workers must be vaccinated; so must our military personnel.
This is anecdotal, but it appears that protests might be diminishing around the nation, too.
Has the word sunk in — finally! — among the numbskulls who have argued against the vaccines? That their phony reasons for refusing to take the medicine have run into the brick wall?
Does this signal the beginning of the end of this deadly cycle? I don’t know. Neither does anyone else know. I do believe that the trends we are witnessing suggest at least a modicum of hope that our best efforts at arresting the killer virus are paying off.
May it be true.