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The panel for the Community Conversation on COVID-19 vaccines and herd immunity Wednesday, May 12, includes Dr. Emily Bates, Professor of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (top left); Dr. Kweku Hazel, Surgical Fellow at CU Anschutz (top right); Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice at the Colorado School of Public Health (bottom left); and Dr. Ross Kedl, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, CU School of Medicine (bottom right).
The Gazette
The Denver Gazette and 9News are teaming up to try to answer homestretch questions Wednesday about herd immunity as we get closer and closer to a return to normalcy. We’ve
Is it safe?
After a year worrying about that question rather intensely, we’re getting closer and closer, and closer to an affirmative answer. But our rapid mobilization on vaccines and simultaneous reopening of schools, restaurants and workplaces is a complex dance, raising a blizzard of fresh questions as we zero in on answering that primary one.
And now is the time to really pay attention. Science shows we’re all likely to push harder and take more risks the closer we are to the finish line.
More than 2 million Coloradans have been fully vaccinated now, which is 43.8 percent of the eligible population. We’re hearing from state health officials that the ultimate goal is 70 percent vaccinated, which would give us “herd immunity,” the threshold when most of the population is immune to Covid-19, providing indirect protection to those who are not immune.
Is it safe?
After a year worrying about that question rather intensely, we’re getting closer and closer, and closer to an affirmative answer. But our rapid mobilization on vaccines and simultaneous reopening of schools, restaurants and workplaces is a complex dance, raising a blizzard of fresh questions as we zero in on answering that primary one.
And now is the time to really pay attention. Science shows we’re all likely to push harder and take more risks the closer we are to the finish line.
More than 2 million Coloradans have been fully vaccinated now, which is 43.8 percent of the eligible population. We’re hearing from state health officials that the ultimate goal is 70 percent vaccinated, which would give us “herd immunity,” the threshold when most of the population is immune to Covid-19, providing indirect protection to those who are not immune.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The 1.9 trillion-dollar American Rescue Plan Act aims to change the course of the pandemic, build a bridge towards economic recovery, and invest in racial justice.
Join us for a special Public Health Week webcast to look beyond the numbers to examine the American Rescue Plan’s short- and long-term implications for public health practice and health equity with a focus on impacts on state and local public health agencies and Schools of Public Health. Leaders from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and the Big Cities Health Coalition will join in the discussion.