In the early days of COVID pandemic, absolutely no one including myself had any ideas on how long it would last and how devastating and abnormal 2020 would be. Almost everyone was optimistic that it would be only few weeks or few months at best. Case in point is my own blog which I wrote on Apr 18 about " To Open, or Not To Open ". I must acknowledge that it was too early (almost by one year) and premature. This week World is reminded of numerous articles of one year of Pandemic and at same time world is also looking forward to return to normalcy. Let's be clear - Pandemic is nowhere over. Millions of people are still getting infected and thousands of lives still getting lost...my empathy to all the families who had lost loved ones...At same time, there is good progress being made to bring normalcy back...let's look at some of the aspects to be optimistic about Vaccines - My salute to all the scientists, companies and volunteers who participated in trials as well as
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