program with contact tracing in place if we are to reduce restrictions...we don't have that yet...2) Fun fact: only 4.5% of those 65yrs and older live in nursing homes...the other 95.5% are "in the community" (see the attached link)...like your neighbors...so 'sequestering' them away from the "non-vulerable" segments is a challenge, to say the least...3) While the preponderance of deaths occur in the upper age groups, nearly 60,000 people under 65 have died from COVID-19...nearly double the annual fatality rate for Flu...many have co-morbidities, or are 'immuno-compromised'...again, it is a challenge to identify, sequester and protect them without addressing the "pathophysiology" of this disease (i.e. reducing contagion).
We can an should "open up" locales (e.g. school districts), especially as the vaccine(s) are administered...but only with our "Virus Radar", to coin a phrase, up and running, so that we can 'tamp out' any outbreaks of COVID. The incoming administration is committed to this approach, so let's all hope that everyone pulls together and makes it happen.
In the interim, let's keep wearing our masks, wash hands and social distance...then get vaccinated as soon as your name comes up.
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK51841/