California locked down early and hard. Yet they had 60,000 COVID-19 deaths. In other words, you can’t really stop a virus until you develop a vaccine.
One of the Bloomberg pundits is pontificating that pandemic responses (masking, “social distancing”, and frequent vaccine “boosters”) may become PERMANENT.
California locked down early and hard. Yet they had 60,000 COVID-19 deaths
True. Adjust for population, though, and California drops down to #29 in COVID deaths per million, just below Washington DC. Statistics are a funny thing.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/