You’re fully immunized against COVID-19. So why do you still need to mask?
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
FILE - In this March 11, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden holds up his mask as he speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House in Washington. Biden spent his first 100 days in office encouraging Americans to mask up and stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. His task for the next 100 days will be to lay out the path back to normal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)AP
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So you’re two weeks past your final dose of COVID-19 and you’re considered fully immunized.
Half of Michigan adults are now vaccinated. The other half will be the hard part.
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Erin Alexander-Bell receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a Family Health Center pop up vaccine clinic at King-Westwood Elementary School in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Family Health Center partnered with Kalamazoo Public Schools and Bronson Methodist Hospital to give the Pfizer vaccine to those 16 and older. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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When COVID-19 vaccines first came out in December, Erin Alexander-Bell was uncertain about getting the shots.
A Kalamazoo mother of three, Alexander-Bell didn’t want to be first in line. She wanted to hear about the experience of people she knew. She had some questions that she wanted answered.
Kelly Hawes | CNHI News Indiana May 1, 2021
The whole thing started with a story in the British newspaper the Daily Mail.
The article sought to describe the impact of President Joe Biden’s climate plan, suggesting it might limit you to “just one burger a MONTH,” cost you $3,500 a year in taxes, force you to spend $55,000 on an electric car and “crush” American jobs.
The article cited a January 2020 study by the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems examining how a transition to a more plant-based diet could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. The report also calculated the environmental impact of a 90% reduction in beef consumption.
NEW YORK â President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the âHamburglarâ in the conservative media world.
But while the false story lasted, it moved with a damaging speed and breadth, another example of a closed ecosystem of information affecting public opinion.
An academic study published a year before Biden became president was used to speculate that he would place limits on how much red meat Americans can consume as part of his stated goal to sharply reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
It was a potentially potent, visceral argument with punchy cable TV octane, namely that Biden was trying to limit people to eating one hamburger a month â an allegation that could seriously undermine his climate change plan before he even announced it.
Yet two days after the Daily Mail brought up the topic in a report last Thursday, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, was tweeting, “Why doesn t Joe stay out of my kitchen?”
The Mail s story, by Emily Crane, was headlined “How Biden s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and ‘crush’ American jobs.”
Crane cited a January 2020 study by the University of Michigan s Center for Sustainable Systems, which discussed how a transition to a more plant-based diet by Americans could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. The paper estimated the environmental impact of a 90% reduction in beef consumption.