I read the article in the Napa Valley Register: "GOP seeks to convince vaccine skeptics within its own ranks" (May 1). I am thankful I already received my first Moderna type of COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 20 and my second jab on Feb. 23. I feel comfortably, yet cautiously, at-ease that I have received both shots. I only pray that it remains effective (at least for awhile). I am also thankful that continuing opportunities will be offered for people to get the vaccine, if they want it. This effort almost reminds me of efforts to help people in past plagues (and that is what this pandemic is â a plague). It is a serious (and sometimes fatal) widespread sickness which has spread globally with doctors, nurses, researchers, and volunteers working valiantly to try to combat this awful ailment which attacks cells in the human body.