Recalibrating Vaccine Expectations

Hawaii and Texas offer a parallel real-world view of a future with high vaccination rates

It’s been a rough summer, not just to the extent that the COVID surges have happened, but also in relation to confounding our expectations. This May, cases and deaths were down all across the board and it looked like the vaccines were proving to be the salvation that we had all hoped they would be. It’s been difficult to watch as COVID makes such an awf…