As COVID-19 Cases Fall, Pandemic Expert Urges Americans To 'Take The Lessons Of This Seriously'
Half the country's adults are now fully vaccinated and nearly two-thirds have a single dose as restrictions continue to lift and COVID-19 cases drop.
The last time Here & Now spoke to pandemic expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett, she said “the gates of Hades have been opened” as the virus ripped through the U.S.
This was in November of 2020, just after the massive, maskless Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota ignited the spread of the virus around the country.
But as Garrett joins the show once again, the U.S. has encouraging news to celebrate: 50% of American adults are fully vaccinated and nearly two-thirds have a single dose, putting the country closer to President Biden’s goal of 70% by early July.
While COVID-19 cases are dropping and vaccines are working better than originally imagined, “that does not by
