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My mother could have been a doctor Purdue, premed, 1938 but like so many women of her era, she got married, started a family, and became a de facto pediatrician for six unruly and often calamity-prone children. She was the one to take us to the doctor for our shots and the one who trooped us down to the emergency room conveniently just a block away from home when we did something really stupid.
Mothers have long been recognized as healthcare decision makers within the family, and that may well be the case when COVID-19 vaccinations become available to children and adolescents. Kaiser Health News reports that more women than men are getting their COVID-19 vaccines, even though more men than women are dying of the disease, and that is about par for the course for us guys.
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As of Monday, 50% of the adult population in the United States had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 33% were fully vaccinated. In another metric milestone, more than 80% of seniors have had at least one shot, and nearly two thirds are fully jabbed.
Now that the (adult) glass is half full, how do we fill it? Four months into the campaign, the initial surge of vaccinations still has momentum, as we’ve averaged more than 3 million shots a day in early April. In pockets of America here and there, however, unused doses are evidence of flattening demand.
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Mid-April doesn’t exactly have the happiest reputation among times of the year. The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912 off the coast of Newfoundland, claiming the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. President Lincoln died of his gunshot wounds in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865.
The litany of bad stuff happening mid-April is downright unsettling if not eerie: San Francisco earthquake (April 18, 1906); Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995); Virginia Tech shooting (April 16, 2007); Boston Marathon bombing (April 15, 2013); the fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris (April 15, 2019).
And then, of course, income taxes are due April 15 except that they aren’t. The IRS pandemic-extended deadline for filing returns is now May 17.
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We begin this week with a cautionary tale titled “What community transmission looks like.” An event held in February to celebrate the opening of a bar in rural Illinois led to 46 cases of COVID-19, including 26 patrons of the bar, three bar employees, and 17 people who weren’t there at all but got infected by someone who was.
Submitted for your consideration are the pertinent findings:
Four people who attended the event had COVID-19-like symptoms that day. One attendee was asymptomatic but had received a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 the day before the party.
Attendees reported inconsistent use of masks and failure to socially distance despite properly spaced tables and signs encouraging these precautions.
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