This article was originally published on 10/10/2020 for my informal email list. I’m re-posting some of my earlier newsletters here as a gradual process to shift to Substack. We’ve heard the saying that “vaccines don’t save lives; vaccination saves lives.” So my previous conception was that mass vaccination would be the real hurdle next year when we get vaccines, and only if we can vaccinate people, can we actually return to normalcy. One policymaker I recently met at a conference disagreed: you would need both the mass vaccination and