From The New York Times this morning: The federal government is rushing to roll out a $250 million public education campaign to   encourage Americans to take the vaccine . Public support is split: 60 percent of people said they were likely to get the shot, a recent Pew poll found, while more than 20 percent were strongly opposed. Germany will enact a   nationwide lockdown over Christmas , closing most stores and schools and strictly limiting gatherings, which will continue on to January 10. The USA had 220,298 new cases and 2307 new deaths this past Friday. Germany had 21,816 new cases and 351 deaths. The population of the U.S. is four times larger than Germany, so effectively, their lockdown policy was triggered by what for the USA would be 87,264 new case, with 1404 new deaths. Can you imagine President Donald Trump doing this as Chancellor Angela Merkel did? This tougher stand is part of why Germany has suffered 264 deaths/million and the U.S. 919 deaths/million. The eventual dep