Should I get the COVID vaccine? Yes
Should I get the COVID vaccine? Yes
By Lawrence Zhou, graduate student in Communication and Journalism department
I’m getting tired of masking. I’m getting tired of online classes. I’m getting tired of my airline miles wasting away, unused. I’m getting tired of my phone thinking I’m dead because I never leave my house. But it is precisely because the pandemic fatigue sucks that you should get vaccinated. The quickest way out of this pandemic is vaccinations. Israel has engaged in one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in the world and they are quickly returning to life as normal. It should be embarrassing to us as Americans that China, where this all started, somehow (safely) opened back up before us. I’d like to join the rest of the world in opening up.
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If a reader consumed only these headlines from The New York Times over the past two weeks, they might assume the United States had already lost the battle against COVID-19. Together, they portray that the variants and hesitancy have outmatched the scientific achievement of a generation: the development of safe and highly efficacious shots against an emergent pandemic in less than a year.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 09May 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January hig
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Washington Post: Opinion: Americans will increasingly have to make their own judgments about covid-19 risks The questions at the end of the pandemic are shaping up to be as challenging as those at the beginning. Do I have to wear a mask outdoors? What can I do after I’m vaccinated? When can we stop wearing masks altogether? And, the big one: What about kids?
The Atlantic: Don’t Wait for Herd Immunity With 200 million doses administered, America’s vaccine-distribution program has been remarkably successful, but now it is hitting a wall.
On May 3rd, the New York Times bannered “Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe” and reported that “there is widespread consensus among scientists and public health experts that the herd immunity threshold is not .