Also, should be noted, that some states imposed a pecking order on who could get vaccinated and when. That should have created a backlog but I think most states have opened up to everyone now that there is plenty of supply available and more coming. I agree, the highly motivated people already went.
We are going to get past this, vaccines or no vaccines, one way or another. I’ll just repeat what I have said for about a year. It’s a damn shame that no serious money has been thrown at studying treatments. Vaccines may be great and all, but it’s going to take two years to vaccinate the entire planet. All those who can’t, don’t, or won’t get vaccinated are left to the whims of their local politicians and institutional physicians.
Monoclonal antibody therapy (the same treatment President Trump got in the hospital) works pretty well. It’s just expensive and it’s not a magic cure-all.
A lot of different possible treatments have been tried. Some have been found to have some value. Most have been found to have little or no value. Nearly all have no value once the person is at the stage of being hospitalized. And no treatment has yet been found that’s nearly as effective at saving lives and keeping people out of the hospital as the vaccines are. When it’s trained in recognizing and responding to the particular threat, even a fairly unhealthy person’s immune system can win the fight. An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.