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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bloomberg update for today: 82.5 million shots given around the world with 25.6 million given in the United States at a rate of 1.21 million Americans being vaccinated a day. [/quote]

I know "half is glass full" posts/media stories will take this and say it'll take a year to vaccinate the US at this. I like to look at it as 1.21 million new circuit breakers being put in place each day. We're going to reach an inflection point when the tide really will turn because the virus has fewer places to jump between.[/quote]

Exactly!  [/quote]
+1 Especially since the higher-risk people are getting shots first.  
Hospitalizations and cases turned the corner about 2 weeks ago, and deaths are likely just at that point now.
Also if you look at the Bloomberg tracker (or the underlying CDC data), you'll see that shots given are trending up, and (from Our World in Data), we're on a path similar to UK's, but about a week behind (because they started earlier).
It's hard to say when the upward daily trend will end, but it's very encouraging for now.[/quote]

Agreed on hospitalizations, which should matter a lot more than cases at this point.  With the vaccine roll-out steadily increasing, the severity/impact of the cases should continue to drop quickly, even if the case numbers themselves don't drop as fast.  National hospitalizations are down to ~107k, down from a peak of over 132k (on Jan 6th):

https://covidtracking.com/data/national[/quote]

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