months to come. there is hope on the horizon. cautious and fragile. but there is hope. it is my hope president biden will do what leaders should do, which is deflect any perceived credit and shoulder at least his share of the responsibility. that is what leaders do. the reality is we are most hopeful because of the medicine. the vaccines, treatment and the therapies. that gives us both physical resistance to the virus and some measure of emotional security. the credit for the medicine goes to the women and the men who dedicated their lives to creating, studying and testing the vaccines in therapies. credit goes to those bold enough to believe this could be done and could be done in record time. some of those bold enough to believe were in the previous administration. i harbor no illusion that president biden will give credit to the previous administration and the women and men who help us get where we are today. but he should. it s been an american tragedy. an american respon