"Shadow" wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 06:22:48 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 2:54:21 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
A feature of coronavirus that emerged early in the pandemic was its
tendency to inflict serious illness and death on predominantly elderly
people or those with pre-existing health conditions.

Young and otherwise healthy people were left largely unscathed, with
many experiencing such minor symptoms - or none altogether - that they
didn't even realise they were infected.

But the emergence of new mutations of COVID-19, dubbed 'variants of
concern' by epidemiologists, has changed all of that.

Dodging sickness and even death are no longer are safe bet for young
people, as countless examples internationally have shown.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...6685f4f7787826

The good news here is that while the media keeps harping on about a new
surge,
for the US as a whole, so far there has only been a small blip back up and
it doesn't
look like the beginning of the two previous surges. There are 5 states
that are having
serious new surges, but the rest must be declining or at least not
increasing.

Speaking of the media harping about the terrible new surge, that puts an
end to the
Trumpets claims that the media was only covering Covid last year, making a
big story
of it, to try to screw Trump.

Given where we are at, I think the US will not see a significant new
surge, because
the vaccine is winning, thanks to responsible people getting it. About
160 mil doses
have been given, over 200 mil have been shipped. NJ here, about 40% have
been
vaccinated. Those are serious numbers that are having an ever increasing
effect.
If there was a mistake, maybe it was to not vaccinate the 20 year old
dummies sooner,
because it looks like they are the ones aggressively spreading it.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Only 19.3% of the American population has been FULLY vaccinated.

You don't need to be fully vaccinated to get very significant protection.