We’ve spent much of 2020 waiting for packages to be shipped, but none so eagerly as the dry ice packed vials of hope that were loaded on trucks over the weekend. And America, your package has arrived. The first recipient on Monday was Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse at New York’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center. (The cheering for health workers was nice. This is better.) “I want to instill public confidence that the vaccine is safe. We’re in a pandemic so we all need to do our part. I believe in science. As a nurse I am guided by science.” Let’s hope the rest of the country will be too, as the good news of the country’s first vaccination comes as we approach the sad milestone of 300,000 deaths.

+ “President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was reversing an administration directive to vaccinate top government officials against COVID-19, while public distribution of the shot is limited to front-line health workers and people in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.” I’d reverse this reversal. White House officials should be getting the vaccine right away for national security and to convince followers of its safety, even if it’s hard to watch this administration—the naysayers, the maskless, the superspreaders, and the body count increasers—get it. And some of those who downplayed the threat or called it a hoax for purely political reasons will live, while some of those on the front lines saving lives, will die. It’s just how the math works; and has been working all year long.