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The current narrative regarding the COVID-19 vaccine is a simple one: The perfect storm of insufficient supply, overwhelming demand and poor planning have created a chaotic roll-out process, but once supply of vaccines increases and the sign-up process is streamlined, everyone will be able to receive a vaccine and we will achieve herd immunity by the summer.
After nearly a year of devastation brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic and recent news of Texas becoming the first state to administer 1 million doses of vaccines, Texas Stateâs Student Health Center is gearing up for its own vaccination efforts with hopes the campus community will take advantage. Texas State, an approved vaccine provider, created a workgroup during the fall semester to begin planning for distribution and now expects to receive either the Food and Drug Administration-approved Pfizer or Moderna vaccines in the coming weeks. âWe've seen those horrible picture...
Letter: Embrace truth, get to work By Chris Langlois, Vancouver Share: A nationalist, “although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, tends to be uninterested in what happens in the real world.” (George Orwell) In contrast, “A patriot wants a nation to live up to its ideals. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved or sustained. … A nationalist will say that ‘it can’t happen here,’ which is the first step towards disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop...
Print San Diego has no shortage of history to reflect on during what should be a holiday of reverence, introspection and charity. But the bit of history that I can’t quite get away from is the time San Diegans rejected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In January 1986 — the same year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first celebrated as a national holiday — the San Diego City Council decided it wanted to rename a major roadway in honor of King, joining many large cities across the country that had similarly opted to rename streets or landmarks in honor of the Civil Rights icon.
'Protect our community.' How Black leaders are tackling hesitancy over COVID vaccine Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Brian Murphy, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Jan. 15—DURHAM — The day that Duke University Hospital received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine last month, Faye Williams sat down, rolled up her left sleeve and made history. Williams, a nurse at Duke clinics screening people for the virus, was the first frontline worker and the first Black person to receive the vaccine in the Triangle region. A month and her second vaccine dose later, Williams spoke on...