Barbara Hemmendinger
The public wants to know how to find appointments for getting immunized against COVID-19. With a majority of Americans eager to be vaccinated, we are cautiously hopeful this long pandemic will end. Significantly more vaccine doses are being manufactured and distributed free to all adults, no matter where you live, where you were born, and what your race or ethnicity is.
Vaccines and other public health measures save lives. The Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines all are safe and strikingly effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID, all worthwhile endpoints. If you need convincing beyond these vaccines’ clinical trial results that led to emergency use authorizations in the U.S., go no further than recalling that the huge improvements in U.S. life expectancy in our parents’ and grandparents’ generations came about through childhood immunizations, sanitary drinking water, and tobacco control. People like my gr