akbeemer
SURVIVOR
Montana, with a population of 1.1 million, as adminstered 140K doses of vaccine and has fully immunized 38.4K people. The number of active cases is at 19% of the high in November and the number of hospitalized people is at 20% of the November high mark. On Sunday we had the first day in which there were less than 100 new cases in several months. A drop in the number of deaths per day lagged behind the drop in cases per day for several weeks, but recently have seemed be inline with what the hospitalizations and active case numbers would suggest. I'm at a loss to explain what lead to the lessening of the number of new cases. Increased compliance with wearing masks and fewer people in restaurants and saloons is likely responsible for some of it, but perhaps we've achieved some herd immunity. Just a SWAG, but whatever is happening is a good thing.