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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/briefing/gamestop-stock-tesla-biden-climate.html

[b]A Fall in Virus Cases

Virus cases are falling more sharply in the U.S. than at any previous point.

The United States has never experienced a sharp and sustained decline in new coronavirus cases — until, perhaps, now.

Last year, new cases in the U.S. went through cycles of rising rapidly and then leveling off or falling only modestly. That was different from the situation in many other countries, where sharp drops sometimes occurred. Look at how much bigger the declines were in Western Europe last spring and last fall than in the U.S.:  [i](sorry, the chart wouldn't load)[/i]

But now the situation may be changing.

New cases in the U.S. have fallen 35 percent over the past three weeks. Hospitalizations have dropped, as well. Deaths have not, but they have stabilized — and the death trend typically lags the cases trend by a few weeks.
“I like the trends we are seeing, and I am personally hopeful that things are going to get better,” Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told me. “But there are a number of things that could also go wrong.”[/b]

Monica Gandhi (our beacon of hope) said on Twitter that the sharpness and persistence of the decline invokes evolving immunity from the vaccine roll-out.  [/quote]

What is "evolving immunity?" The sharp decline is a result of us starting at such an inflated base point that was due to holiday travel and gathering stupidity.

Sorry if that's not an uplifting opinion, but at least the decline is encouraging, though it would have been shocking if it didn't occur.[/quote]

In response to a question to Dr. Gandhi’s original tweet, she said:

“I mean that in all previous surges, the decline has been slow, tapering.  This a fast decline in cases, suggesting immunity in population from vaccines likely taking an effect.”[/quote]

This should resolve PP'S concern that the decline is simply a rebound from the holiday surges which would be "shocking if it didn't occur"

Dr. Gandhi seems to say that this decline is happening faster which indicates that the vaccines are having an actual real effect. Tbh, this makes the most sense... and is uplifting to hear as well.

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