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With the prick of a needle, an elderly Chula Vista man was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Dec. 21, drawing cheers and applause from a room filled with health care workers.
Carlos Alegre had just become one of the first San Diegans to receive a vaccine that fights the novel coronavirus, raising people’s hope that the county, and the country, will emerge from the pandemic, perhaps by mid-to-late summer.
For the record:
4:02 PM, Jan. 12, 2021The original version of this article said that the CDC estimates 55 to 82 percent of the public will need immunity to the coronavirus to halt the pandemic’s spread. Those figures were actually reported by non-CDC researchers in a journal published the CDC.