Dr. Edward Jenner performing his first smallpox vaccination on James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. May 14, 1796.
Jan. 28—With just 15 million Americans having been administered vaccine against COVID-19 to this date—and far, far fewer even in many developed countries—the success of the COVID-19 vaccination drive depends on more than production and distribution rates and public health systems. It also needs what seems, in the United States, to be a scarce virtue among its citizens: commitment to the General Welfare.
The words are capitalized in the great Preamble to the United States Constitution as one of the primary concerns of “We, the People.” No disease is or has been