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What about other regions like the Northeast, where many states are experiencing an increase in cases? After the initial surge in March, the state of New York managed to control the pandemic well for much of the year. While cases and hospitalizations are rising there once again, only an estimated 41% have been infected, and even that might be an overestimate because of New York’s relatively robust testing infrastructure. In places like New York, where so many people remain available for the virus to infect, mitigation efforts are essential to prevent hospitals and health care systems from being overrun.
We have endured nearly a year of Covid-19, and only a few months remain until many of the burdensome precautions we grow weary of following will no longer be necessary to keep us safe. With safe and effective vaccines becoming available, there is a strong incentive for those who have managed to avoid infection to continue to avoid exposure until they have the opportunity to become vaccinated, particularly those at high risk of complications. Moreover, since we don’t how long natural immunity lasts, even those who have recovered from Covid-19 may benefit from a vaccine and the boost in immunity it would likely confer.
Because of a different vaccine, the varicella vaccine, which was developed when I was in elementary school, I never contracted chickenpox. For the same reason, I will never know what it's like to have shingles — a painful rash that can occur in patients who have had chickenpox in the past. I’m okay with that.
Likewise, I’ll probably never know how it feels to suffer from Covid-19. I just received my second dose of the vaccine this week and am feeling well. There’s no FOMO happening here.

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But I’ve taken care of plenty who have suffered and even died from Covid-19. Nearly all of them would have chosen to receive the vaccine, were it available, before they became ill. Here’s wishing you a different path to immunity. Here’s to a safe new year and hopes that your shot to receive the shot arrives soon.
Even after the pandemic dust settles and all the direct Covid-19 deaths are counted, Americans will continue dying for decades due to economic stress from job losses and other financial impacts, history suggests. The economic fallout could lead to an additional 1.4 million excess, pandemic-related deaths over the next 20 years, according to new projections.
The deaths could be prevented. Policymakers should consider the grim prognosis when crafting plans to curb the spread of the coronavirus but also when pondering economic stimuli, health care policies, and especially disparities in health care access, researchers argue in a working paper published by the private, nonpartisan, nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research. 
It’s become increasingly clear that we need to vaccinate a lot of people, preserve hospital capacity, and buy time to stop the pandemic. We know that we have an exponentially increasing spread of Covid-19 all over the country, and there will be even more with recent holiday travel and gatherings.
England has announced a new national lockdown due to a surge of cases and hospitalizations related to the new, more transmissible B117 variant. The United States needs to do the same, urgently, before spread overwhelms more parts of the country as it currently has in Los Angeles County.
We need an emergency plan to stop spread with more drastic policy measures. We had authored the framework for such a plan — termed “Smarter Lockdowns” — over the summer. Many of these points still hold today, and we don’t need to call them “lockdowns” because the point is being smart about stopping spread, not restricting people blindl…