To the editor:
There are two ways to reach herd immunity. One, vaccinate those at risk until a critical mass is reached (60-70% of the population) and two, achieve natural immunity via infection. The evolving pandemic is essentially the pandemic of the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are those that allow for variants to occur and to expose the vaccinated to the variants.
Hospitalization and deaths due to COVID-19 are increasing and are due, in over 95% of those infected, to infection in the unvaccinated. Infection to the vaccinated does occur (no vaccine is 100% effective at preventing disease) but the disease is milder and hospitalization or death are unlikely to occur.
Dr Karen Luparello named Health Agency Medical Director
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With the COVID-19 pandemic still active and social isolation continuing, we need a healthy diversion.
With food insecurity currently seen in one in seven families, resurgence of a victory garden can provide a public health benefit. The victory garden movement began with World War I and returned during World War II. Americans planted gardens to support local community needs and to help feed our troops. Victory Gardens were grown in nearly every spare patch of land in private gardens, public lands, parks, playgrounds and churchyards. Even window boxes and front-step containers became useful Victory Gardens. By the end of WWII there were more than 20 million gardens and these produced some 8 million tons of food.