What Will Life After the COVID-19 Vaccine Look like? Emma Sarran Webster
is a series exploring the COVID-19 vaccine, and what it means for young people from the science behind it to how it impacts our lives.
We’re officially one year into the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and it’s almost hard to remember what life was like in the “before times.” But with vaccine rollout underway, there are glimmers of hope that those times aren’t forever lost, and that we won’t be perpetually stuck in a universe where avoiding other people is courteous, events exist primarily on Zoom, and face masks are the norm. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 7 million people had been fully vaccinated (completing the requisite two doses) with either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as of February 4.
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BRITISH INVASION This isn’t the first time the Covid-19 virus has mutated.
In February, the virus strain that spread in Europe had more than a dozen mutations to the spike protein, which the virus uses to enter cells. It’s highly contagious and quickly became the dominant form of Covid.