“My first and ongoing feeling when I hear that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook and other social media is relief.
COVID-19 vaccinations
The tracker I am using is Our World In Data.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been tasked with creating guidelines for the queue to receive the COVID-19 vaccines.
The more than half-billion number represents twice injecting 262 million Americans, roughly 80% of our current population. But I digress. Here are the suggestions.
Make the Vaccine Free and Easily Accessible
In that top row, we can see some stratification by risk; the more likely a group perceives their risk, the more likely to get vaccinated. With one very concerning exception, Black Americans.
Seven vaccine candidates are expected to pass FDA muster in the next months.
I've written in the late winter and early spring about what was deemed an essential service.
COVID-19 is a global issue requiring a global solution. Vaccines, the essential component of our scientific understanding of herd immunity, is anticipated to be distributed to all the world's nations.
The Pew study found that concerns about side effects and how the vaccine works are the principal reasons that 49% o