If 2020 was the story of the plague, 2021 is the story of how we finally began to beat it back.
It would be easy to say it began at the end of 2020 when the first vaccines started to be available, but the truth is we were very fortunate that much of the ground work for the vaccines was done over the last two decades so we had a head start. And, as 2021 went on, vaccines for the deadly pandemic became more and more widely available. As I write this at the beginning of December I could walk in to any of a dozen places within 5 minutes of my house and get a shot. And while COVID is still with us – Delta variant rampaged much of the world in late 2021 and there is now talk of an even more infectious Omicron variant – the vaccines seem to be working well and things are looking much better than they were when I was writing at this time last year.
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