Regarding the in-person school and college fiasco: The obvious problem is promoting ANY clusters of people getting together in groups. Even with masks and hand sanitizing, that's a sure way to spread the virus. Sure, the spread rate can be lower than with no masks, or with everybody shaking hands, but it is still spread. All schools just need to remain on-line until we have all students and employees immunized. It's probably only going to be a few more months.

All this chaos and death because Trump is desperate to get reelected. Next thing he's going to try is to rush out a vaccine by election day with no time for the Phase III trial to collect safety or efficacy data. The Oxford vaccine requires two injections 28 days apart, and then it's about a month before antibodies show up. That gets us to November. THEN the actual trial starts. Researchers need to collect data while the trial subjects are immunized. If they collect it before that, the data adds to the "vaccinated but not immune yet" total and makes the vaccine look ineffective. It's going to take a few months of natural spread to see a difference between the immunized and control arms. That's why the UK is running a 10 month trial on the very same vaccine.

Personally, I would not take the Oxford vaccine until about March with very good safety and efficacy numbers. Any earlier than that and you are effectively volunteering to be part of the Phase III trial!