The Better Business Bureau is warning people not to post their Covid-19 vaccination cards on social media
No matter how excited you are about getting your vaccine, the Better Business Bureau is warning you: Avoid sharing photos of your Covid-19 vaccine cards..
Posted: Feb 1, 2021 7:07 AM
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No matter how excited you are about getting your vaccine, the Better Business Bureau is warning you: Avoid sharing photos of your Covid-19 vaccine cards. Unfortunately, your card has your full name and birthday on it, as well as information about where you got your vaccine, said the BBB in a news release. If your social media privacy settings aren t set high, you may be giving valuable information away for anyone to use.
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Last spring and summer, when a COVID-19 vaccine was only a glimmer of hope on the horizon, scientists warned in their careful way that vaccines might not live up to the public’s high expectations. The FDA said a vaccine needed to be just 50 percent effective. The most important thing, scientists told me, was that the vaccines at least protect against severe illness.
Then, in the fall, data from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine trials demonstrated 95 percent and 94 percent efficacy, respectively, against all symptomatic infections. They smashed expectations and created new ones. In comparison, the results from other vaccine trials look pretty good but unspectacular: AstraZeneca’s vaccine looks to be 70 percent effective; Novavax’s achieved 89 percent efficacy in the U.K., but only 49 percent in South Africa, based on data released yesterday; and Johnson & Johnson’s demonstrated 66 percent efficacy against moderate and severe infection, based on results r
5:28 pm UTC Jan. 28, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – Jim Stephens got the text at 8 p.m. and was so excited he couldn t sleep. He had an appointment the next morning to get a COVID-19 vaccine at the city s first mass vaccination clinic.
The 76-year-old drove up after it opened at 8 a.m. and was waved into a line of cars flowing
slowly but steadily through a temporary chain-link fence. He drove along a line of volunteers, making choreographed stops.
First, his appointment paperwork was checked. At the next checkpoint, he was given a surgical mask. A few feet farther, a volunteer went over possible side effects.