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For much of 2020, the world pinned its collective post-pandemic plans on a single, glimmering end point: the arrival of an effective COVID-19 vaccine. The resounding refrain of “when I’m vaccinated” has long conjured images of people shedding their masks, hugging their friends, and returning to a semblance of normalcy. And now some vaccinated people are doing exactly that. In recent weeks, I’ve heard dozens of stories from friends, family members, and co-workers about vaccinees who are immediately dropping their guards after their shots, in some cases discarding their masks and congregating with others. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona, told me that one of his colleagues another biologist went out to a celebratory dinner right after getting a dose at a 24-hour clinic.
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1. Zoom In: ‘A Second Shot at Life’: The Key Marco Cat
At 2 p.m., March 5, Marco Island Historical Society Curator of Collections Austin J. Bell traces the 12,000-mile journey that the Key Marco Cat has made since its discovery on Marco Island in 1896 by archaeologist and anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing.
The Marco Island Historical Museum is located at 180 S. Heathwood Drive. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free, and the site is handicapped accessible.
Face coverings are required for entry, and social distancing and sanitizing practices are being followed.
THE VACCINE rollout is reducing deaths and hospitalisations, emerging evidence suggests. The ongoing vaccination effort is also generating insights into the side effects of the jab. According to data analysed by the Symptom Study app, the after effects are more common the second time around.
Marcus Daly Hospital Plans Second Dose Pfizer Immunization
Over 900 people received their First Dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine three weeks ago at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital. It s time now for the Second Dose of the vaccine and the hospital will repeat the procedure of the earlier Clinic this Saturday, March 6th.
Only those who were at the first clinic are to come to this clinic. They will come at the same time they were scheduled in the initial February 13th clinic. The time is listed on their appointment reminder card. This is by appointment only.
There will be no online sign-ups and no walk-in appointments. Only the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine will be administered. The location is the same as February 13 - the Bitterroot Physicians Clinic at 1200 Westwood Drive, Hamilton. The recipients are in Phase 1A and 1B. Phase 1B includes those 70 years of age and older, people 16-69 with high-risk medical conditions and American Indian and other people of color who may be
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Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality
The virus can take many paths to reinvading a person’s body. Most of them shouldn’t scare us.
On its face,
reinfection appears to be a straightforward term. It is literally “infection, again” a recovered person’s second dalliance with the same microbe. Long written into the scientific literature of infectious disease, it is a familiar word, innocuous enough: a microbial echo, an immunological encore act.
But thanks to the pandemic, reinfection has become a semantic and scientific mess.
Newly saddled with the baggage of COVID-19, reinfection has taken on a more terrifying aspect, raising the specter of never-ending cycles of disease. It has sat at the center of debates over testing, immunity, and vaccines; its meaning muddled by ominous headlines, it has become wildly misunderstood. When I ask immunologists about reinfection in the context of the coronavirus, many sigh.