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On March 10, 2020, Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency as cases of COIVD-19 began to spike in Massachusetts. In the year since, more than 15,000 people have died and a half a million people contracted the disease in Massachusetts alone.
Life, as we knew it, completely changed. Students across the state were suddenly forced into remote learning and many parents juggled supervising them while working from home. People are supposed to wear masks wherever they go. Businesses operate under various restrictions. Public places are cluttered with plastic dividers, hand sanitizer and social-distancing reminders.
The future of the COVID-19 vaccine
Will history repeat itself?
Mass vaccinations historically take years to build true herd immunity within society: What does this mean for the future of the COVID vaccine?
and last updated 2021-02-11 23:16:15-05
GREEN BAY (NBC26) â Although more people are starting to get the COVID-19 vaccine, history shows it could be years before coronavirus cases no longer originate in the United States.
The World Health Organization has declared only one disease affecting humans as officially eradicated: Small pox. Others, like polio and the measles, are now controlled partially with vaccines. It s a tool health officials said they hope will do the same for the coronavirus.
Alex Marquez, of South Boston, was walking in Quincy Center on Tuesday, and said he will not take the vaccine when it becomes available. It s too soon, he said. I m not too sure about it yet. It s way too early.
Marquez said medicines are taken off the market all the time when side effects surface after wide release. If you take this, and there are long-term side effects, it s way too early to know, Marquez said.
He said he is open to taking the vaccine later on, but he wants to play it by ear.
Marquez is not alone in his hesitance to take the COVID-19 vaccine. A recent survey of nearly 2,000 adults published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open found Americans’ willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine was most linked to vaccine efficacy, adverse effects and duration of protection.