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.
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
US COVID-19 Cases Drop as Spring Wave Slows medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 15.6 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 1.8 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 29,536
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 299
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 72.8 doses per 100 people.
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases were little changed and deaths worsened
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