Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DragonBear]

They've dropped the access vaccination age to 40 here, which is still not good enough.

Not for the variants. Is Canada depending solely on the AZN vaccine? Supply in your area?

The UK variant here cropped up before it did in this US

More good news is the S African strain got some play out of the UK a few days ago. That should help it get spread more in the US, after crossing the Atlantic from the UK. After the UK variant clears out. That will have to run its course.

I hate to say it, but I think the US is in for a worse time of it, assuming history repeats.

Once vaccination in the US is said to be completed, State level mitigation measures will fall away. Then will come screaming media headlines about another Covid wave. The anti-VAXers being the target of Covid. The pro-VAXers as in vaccinated with more mild-moderate breakthrough infections. Especially with the 65+ group. More screaming headlines about that. Covid fatigue vs the Fed Gov wanting the States to clamp down again. Injecting some political pixie dust into the public debate. If no herd immunity through vaccination it ought to be fun.

Per the WH, the US went from the tRUMP Admin, that didn't give a shit, to a Biden Admin that might end up stressing the Covid fatigue. Opposite polarities.