Vaccinations: Science in Service of Humanity
Dr. Edward Jenner performing his first smallpox vaccination on James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. May 14, 1796. Jan. 28—With just 15 million Americans having been administered vaccine against COVID-19 to this date—and far, far fewer even in many developed countries—the success of the COVID-19 vaccination drive depends on more than production and distribution rates and public health systems. It also needs what seems, in the United States, to be a scarce virtue among its citizens: commitment to the General Welfare. The words are capitalized in the great Preamble to the United States Con...