100 million fully vaccinated people are helping the US reopen. But many millions more are needed

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100 million fully vaccinated people are helping the US reopen. But many millions more are needed
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Although the vaccination milestone means that nearly 40% of adults have been inoculated, the US still has a ways to go to reach herd immunity -- which would be when 70-85% of the population is vaccinated, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

"I think we can confidently say the worst is behind us," the Dean of Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Ashish Jha said Friday on"Good Morning America.""We will not see the kinds of sufferings and death that we have seen over the holidays. I think we are in a much better shape heading forward.

That's down from last week's report, when IHME estimated at least 602,723 deaths by August 1. The new projection accounts for scaled up Covid-19 vaccine distribution over the next 90 days and the continued spread of the B.1.1.7 virus variant in the US."Daily cases and deaths continue to decline, signaling that despite widespread circulation of B.1.1.7, the combination of increasing vaccination and declining seasonality is driving a decline in the epidemic," the IHME team said.

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