Tomlinson: Vaccine offers promise, but COVID still requires discipline, sacrifice in months ahead By Chris Tomlinson, Staff writer
Vaccines generate hope that we will soon curtail the COVID-19 pandemic, but resolving our economic and health crises will require continued personal discipline and collective economic sacrifice.
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Almost every day, I see a headline declaring that some key indicator has turned positive. Unemployment is not as bad as feared, the economy did not shrink as much as anticipated, businesses are not in as bad a shape as analysts expected.
Pharmaceutical companies developed vaccines at record speed, better treatments mean fatality rates are dropping, and the mutant viruses are manageable. Every day, scientists learn something new, taking us a step closer to normalcy.
Tomlinson: Vaccine offers promise, but COVID still requires discipline, sacrifice in months ahead
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Veronica Smith, from front left, her nephew Nicholas Rogers, 17, her brother Herman Rogers, and her sister Catherine Rogers help load donated items Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, at MacGregor Park in Houston. The event was part of the MLK Day Virtual Experience and Parade of Giving.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Houston Fire Department Honor Guard Assistant Commander Carlos Pascualli rings a bell as Mayor Sylvester Turner led a local memorial to lives lost to COVID-19 Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Houston. Participants honored all lives lost in Houston, Harris County and the state of Texas to COVID-19 complications.Steve Gonzales, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less