We all kind of knew it would be early next year but we also were hoping maybe earlier then March. We also knew it wouldn’t be “in the next few weeks”. Let’s hope maybe another company gets through their trials a bit earlier and maybe we can see something in January?
They at least still see it plausible to have an EUA for front-line workers in the December-January time frame. I think Pfizer's CEO is playing it too loose with his messaging when the realistic time frame is probably similar. This continues to point towards Spring at the earliest for GP, with mass roll out more like late Spring/early Summer. Which, let's be honest, is still pretty astounding. Under 18 months.
I think you have to dig deeper about what an outbreak means. There are people contract COVID from elsewhere who go to school, a case or two in the school that could be highly localized, or a widespread outbreak within the school. Here in NJ, while "11" may be correct, the numbs of people are small.
Yep, here in MI — I think we have had a mask mandate about as long as Illinois has — we seem to be doing pretty good. Places like gyms and theaters are either now open or reopening soon... all with the mask requirement in place and very limited capacity.
My oldest has been back to school for 2 1/2 weeks in a hybrid model...at a high school with 1300 students total. Between the 25th and 28th of September, 2 students at his school tested positive. This is just one school (there are 2 high schools, the other has 1200 students) out of 15 total in a town of 55,000 people. Since school started, our town has gone from being coded as "green", back to "yellow". I don't know how many positives have been found at other schools because they aren't making that information public. As of last week, we'd had 30 new positives over a 2-week period.
That's not a map of "compliance" with rules. That is a map of where people are wearing masks/face coverings.This is the most recent data I have been able to find. Maybe compliance has increased since then:
A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S. (Published 2020)
The patterns from hundreds of thousands of survey respondents reflect partisanship, peer pressure and the footprint of the coronavirus itself.www.nytimes.com
You may be right, who knows? I'm fine with mandates as long as they are revisited regularly in light of new information. As we know more, we may be able to concentrate our efforts more on what works and remove less effective restrictions. I'm not a big fan of forcing people to do something ineffective simply because we won't/can't do what actually works. But, unfortunately, right now we don't know enough to make those kinds of calls.
I’m not spinning anything. It just appears you want the government to help fund or not fund based on what you think is best.
Moderna, one of our best chances of a vaccine, says now that at the earliest to distribute if all goes well, March 2021.
Moderna CEO says its coronavirus vaccine won't be ready until spring of next year
Drugmaker's timeline deals a blow to Donald Trump's claim that a vaccine could be out before the November election.www.google.com
Isn't that one of the reasons we vote in elections?
Was there anything on there about "I will be ready to visit once my home state lifts mandatory travel quarantines after visiting Florida"? Right now, that's one of the biggest considerations for people in the northeast on when we will book our next Disney trip.
Yes. I’m not sure which point you are trying to make. Should the federal government decide what my local school (also elected officials) thinks is best?
