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since vaccines first became available mid-December. Officials had warned that dispensing enough vaccines to reach herd immunity would take months.
And with the initial vaccine supply extremely limited and the virus running rampant across the nation over the winter, it was a sad reality that some would contract COVID-19 and die before they could be inoculated.With surveys showing a large percentage of the U.S.
population leery of vaccines, it’s impossible to say exactly how many of the dead would have even wanted an immunization. But Brown said her mother wanted one — desperately.