While wishful thinking and apparently many politicians, want to pretend that the COVID-19 epidemic has ended, it just ain’t true. Even if the number of severe cases has dropped in the United States, we are still losing thousands of people a month, repeat contagions are on the rise, and long COVID is just becoming recognized and investigated. Further, we are heading into a respiratory trifecta of COVID, Flu,  and RSV that are already overloading hospitals before the holidays. However, the BIG outlier is that most of the population of the planet has not been vaccinated. Look what a few folks flying out of China and Europe did to launch this pandemic – now add billions of people.