A doctor holds the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and syringe to protect against the coronavirus disease. (Photo: lakshmiprasada S/Shutterstock)

For millions of Americans, the emergency authorization of two COVID-19 vaccines by the federal government was a bright spark of hope in what has been an otherwise bleak pandemic winter. Indeed, according to preliminary modeling from Verisk's Life Risk Navigator platform, the United States could potentially achieve the long-sought herd immunity by the fall of 2021 thanks, in part, to these very vaccines.

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