Smoke from western wildfires reaches New York area
Smoke from the western wildfires has reached the New York area.
NEW YORK - New Yorkers noticed a haze lingering over the city on Tuesday. One Upper East Side resident said he saw a yellow-orange tinge to the sunlight around 1 p.m. The atmosphere is just choked with smoke from fires out in the western U.S. and Canada. The sky is full of smoke and it s restricting visibility horizontally down here near the surface of the earth, Dr. Dave Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University, told FOX 5 NY. If we get some rain that will help clean out the sky here in the mid-Atlantic states if the circulating winds from west to east shift position.
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A popular Mexican TV host did it, as did a politician from the Dominican Republic: Both posted on social media about traveling to U.S. to get the COVID-19, even though they aren’t U.S. citizens or residents.
Both are now facing public backlash, but that’s not stopping other foreign nationals from arriving on American shores to get their shot. And given how demand for the vaccine in the country has seemed to level off a bit in recent weeks, with appointments easier to get and plenty of supply, some said they didn t see a problem with others coming in to get vaccinated.
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In many states, securing a COVID-19 vaccination appointment is a messy process that requires hours of sitting next to a computer and refreshing the page until, miraculously, a free time slot for a vaccine opens up.
Scooping up a much-coveted vaccine appointment essentially comes down to luck, and when you’re eligible to get vaccinated, you shouldn’t feel guilty that you’re one of the lucky ones who got through.
If you’re struggling deciding whether it’s “morally right” to get the shot when so many other high-risk people are having difficulty booking an appointment, know that you deserve the shot just as much as any other qualifying person.