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When will life return to normal? In 7 years at current Covid-19 vaccination rates
Straights Times ^ | 02/11/2021

Posted on 02/12/2021 6:55:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

When will the pandemic end? It's the question hanging over just about everything since Covid-19 took over the world last year. The answer can be measured in vaccinations.

Bloomberg has built the biggest database of Covid-19 shots given around the world, with more than 119 million doses administered worldwide.

US experts like Dr Anthony Fauci have suggested it will take 70 per cent to 85 per cent coverage of the population for things to return to normal.

Bloomberg's Vaccine Tracker shows that some countries are making far more rapid progress than others, using 75 per cent coverage with a two-dose vaccine as a target.

With vaccine manufacturers scaling up production, more people will be vaccinated in a shorter time.

Israel, the country with the highest vaccination rate in the world currently, is headed for 75 per cent coverage in just two months. The US will get there just in time to ring in the 2022 New Year (though North Dakota could get there six months sooner than Texas).

With vaccinations happening more rapidly in richer Western countries than the rest of the globe, it will take the world as a whole seven years at the current pace.

Bloomberg's calculator provides a snapshot in time, designed to put today's vaccination rates into perspective. It uses the most recent rolling average of vaccinations, which means that as vaccination numbers pick up, the time needed to hit the 75 per cent threshold will fall. The calculations will be volatile, especially in the early days of the roll-out, and the numbers can be distorted by temporary disruptions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; reopening; vaccines
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1 posted on 02/12/2021 6:55:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

II Advent.

When Christ has His enemies under His feet.
Hebrews


2 posted on 02/12/2021 6:57:42 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: SeekAndFind

Before then, of course, we will have Covid-20, Covid-21....


3 posted on 02/12/2021 6:58:02 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Plan is for life NOT to return to normal.
Or have you forgotten The Great Reset?


4 posted on 02/12/2021 6:58:04 AM PST by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: SeekAndFind

There will be mutations and more mutations for years and years, possibly centuries.......................


5 posted on 02/12/2021 6:58:57 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: Varsity Flight

When the squatters in the White House are kicked out and Trump with a New VP returns


6 posted on 02/12/2021 7:00:10 AM PST by Osagegirl
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To: SeekAndFind

BS.

The world returned to normal in just 2 years after the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.

And that was without a vaccine.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 7:01:26 AM PST by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind

How about Israel? They’re getting the Moderna vaccine it looks like, the same vaccine my wife and I got. That’s reassuring.


8 posted on 02/12/2021 7:01:33 AM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: SeekAndFind

Like,never dude.


9 posted on 02/12/2021 7:02:36 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: SeekAndFind

Normal? That’s something you’ll tell your grandkids about. They’ll think your crazy.


10 posted on 02/12/2021 7:06:16 AM PST by robel
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To: Red Badger

It seems like it can only mutate so far before it becomes a brand new virus or reaches maximum affinity. The Receptor Binding Domain can only mutate towards greater affinity for the ACE2 receptor so far. And if it mutates to recognize a new receptor, it has basically become a new virus and it really seems like it would need a helping hand to do that.


11 posted on 02/12/2021 7:06:18 AM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: SeekAndFind

I read that 1.5 million vaccinations have been given each M-F since early January. If true, that should mount up pretty quickly.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 7:26:32 AM PST by elpadre
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone still in favor of mandatory masking/lockdowns ect is an enemy of freedom.


13 posted on 02/12/2021 7:26:57 AM PST by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

slo joe is slo rolling the vaccinations. Instead of a hundred million in 100 days, he’s falling flat on his face.


14 posted on 02/12/2021 7:28:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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RE: slo joe is slo rolling the vaccinations.

Slo Jo is NOT in charge. He is sheltering in place and simply emerging to rubber stamp any written Executive Orders that he has to sign.


15 posted on 02/12/2021 7:29:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: RC one

While that may be true, does the average citizen know or even understand this? No. They will tell us to keep wearing masks and social distance crap for as long as they want, until it becomes second nature....................


16 posted on 02/12/2021 7:30:00 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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He is sheltering in place and simply emerging to rubber stamp any written Executive Orders that he has to sign.

He can't even open the pen and write, he is demented.

17 posted on 02/12/2021 7:30:18 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Covid-19...84 will go forever.


18 posted on 02/12/2021 7:40:21 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Red Badger

Probably. I wonder if freedom will die to the sound of raging resistance or thunderous applause. I’m guessing the latter.


19 posted on 02/12/2021 7:40:44 AM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: RC one

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984


20 posted on 02/12/2021 7:43:31 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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