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          1. Huge numbers of lives, disease-damaged bodies are at stake in how vigilant we are in shutting down the coronavirus…
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          These graphs are from epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman's work, which is a model that doesn't factor in the emerging B117 variant of the virus. nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/24/us/covid-vaccine-rollout.html
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        Still, they show how 48 million infections hang in the balance of coronavirus policies, thereby potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths that could be avoided.
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      (The mortality share will decline as older Americans, who are more vulnerable to dying from COVID, get vaccinated, but you can see that the bulk of the shifts are in the first two months.)
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    Factor in the B117 variant, recently guesstimated at 1% of US infections, and the picture gets dramatically more urgent. @DrEricDing/1353297240610189315
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      Early in January, Denmark's CDC advised harsh measures to reduce the number of infections before the variant becomes common. Here's why: @DrEricDing/1346899021621813249
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        Zooming out from the next few months, we now realize that continued high infection rates will spin out new "variants of concern." Unless we want to stay on continual storm watch, we should aim for zero, like the COVID success countries have. @DrZoeHyde/1352934133261955075