David Leonhardt on Covid deaths and the vaccine

Covid has not only been one of the worst pandemics in modern times.  It has been an unnecessarily terrible pandemic.  Of the more than 700,000 Americans who have died from it, nearly 200,000 probably could have been saved if they had chosen to take a vaccine.  That is a national tragedy.

~ David Leonhardt, "Covid, In Retreat," The New York Times, "The Morning" newsletter, October 4, 2021