Good news on COVID-19, seriously

The numbers are atrocious. No need to belabor that point.

But we have two reasons for optimism:

1. A new study supports the notion that at least one vaccine will take care of the frightening new variant. Researchers were already optimistic that this would be the case or that vaccines could be tweaked to account for a mutation like this.
2. About 90% of patients in a study have retained strong immune responses at least eight months after contracting COVID. One key here — it’s not just antibodies, which aren’t your immune system’s…