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Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. The grim COVID milestone we’ve been awaiting with trepidation arrived Monday, as predicted: 500,000 American lives lost. President Biden gave an evocative speech about the toll this has taken on our country. The flags are flying at half-staff. Even so, a tepid sense of hope seems to be emerging as this cruel winter wanes: Immunization rates are rising, while the infection rate appears to be in decline. Will we see a fourth surge in infections or have we finally “flattened the curve,” as the scientists say?
At some point, the daily heroism of health care professionals all over the world will truly sink in. I include in that group everyone from the nerdy geniuses in their government and private sector labs who produced a vaccine in record time to the brave palliative care nurses who have borne the brunt of seeing half-a-million of our loved ones over to the other side. And every medical industry worker in between.