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As my colleagues Maura Dolan and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde report, some are making plans to catch up on postponed doctor’s appointments, eat inside restaurants, hug family members and enjoy a sex life with other vaccinated people.
But not everyone plans to be a bit more lax in their outings. Many, my co-workers report, have become accustomed to the surges in cases, the new variants, and the caution ingrained from a year of warnings and rising death tolls. They want to see cases drop and more people vaccinated before truly easing their guard because even though the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are around 95% effective, they’re still not 100%.
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For Lance Curtis, the journey to receive the COVID-19 vaccine began with a phone call from Los Angeles Christian Health Centers.
Doctors and nurses had culled a list of nearly 900 homeless people they wanted to vaccinate. Their outreach workers walked the streets of skid row preaching the gospel of Moderna’s two-shot salvation.
And they sought out people in the community’s large shelters to make sure they got pricked.
The goal was to offer a lifeline to one of Los Angeles’ most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations. But the effort to vaccinate the homeless population and the skid row community, which is just getting underway, is fraught with obstacles.