The United States Is On Track To End COVID-19 As 80 Percent Of Adults Get The Shot, Cases Continue To Decline

     The number five is of growing importance in the fight to end the COVID-19 pandemic. In my last writing on COVID, I laid out an initiative aiming to get 83.33 percent, or five out of six, Americans fully vaccinated, which would end the pandemic in the U.S. If we do not achieve this, the U.S. will likely suffer a fifth wave of coronavirus, which could push the death toll over a million people for the first time in history and make it deadlier than almost all U.S. wars put together. On another note, COVID is currently on track to be AT LEAST the fifth-deadliest event in WORLD HISTORY.

     Right now, we have reason to be hopeful. As of today, the U.S. has hit two important milestones for COVID vaccination. The elderly are leading the fight, with 97 percent having gotten at least the first dose. However, as of today, more than 80 percent of Americans over 18 have gotten the first dose of the vaccine. 70 percent have been fully vaccinated. 70 percent have at least gotten the first dose in 35 states, 80 percent in 18 states, and 90 percent in four states in addition to Puerto Rico and Guam. The U.S. has approved the Pfizer vaccine for children ages five to 11, and Moderna has now requested the same approval. This means the U.S. should see 70 percent of the total population get vaccinated by Thanksgiving, 75 percent by the new year, 80 percent by Valentine's Day, and 83 percent by March; April could see five out of six Americans fully vaccinated. I'd like to thank President Biden for his early planning of a rollout for kids, and I'd also like to thank the president for his relentless push for boosters, which were approved for people of all ages and even allowed to be mixed and matched. 10 percent of Americans have already gotten their booster doses, with millions of Americans continuing to do so.

     If we can achieve this, ensure that 80 percent of the world is fully vaccinated by the end of 2022, add the vaccine to the list of scheduled childhood vaccinations, and make it readily available, we can defeat coronavirus, and we can prove that vaccines defeat disease quickly and lay the groundwork for an era of disease eradication, with a malaria vaccine having recently been approved. Cases are on track to decline by 70 percent over the course of 70 days, and we need to use this opportunity to end the pandemic once and for all.