Virus rampant, hospitals filling

Pfizer says it has made a vaccine, Everett can’t escape ‘Red Zone’

By JOSH RESNEK

The Pfizer Company announced Monday it had created a working vaccine that defeats the Coronavirus.

It remains to be seen exactly what this means in terms of when the vaccine will be ready to distribute and how it will be distributed and to whom.

With 33 new cases Sunday and 29 new cases Monday, and Tuesday’s numbers at 30, the new week began with significantly raised virus numbers bound to impact the city.

In all, there were far more than 200 new cases reported by the Department of Public Health in Everett last week.

If ever the vaccine is needed, it is now.

Virus infection numbers had been running at about 10 a day here until the virus went out of control all over the nation several weeks ago.

Everett’s numbers are symptomatic of the expanding numbers of those infected across the land.

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