The Importance of Vaccines in Health Care Settings

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Vaccines have always been intended to be part of a way for a community to continue to be a community, to exist together. There are just so, so many instances in which this has been part of the process. What i wished could have been more prioritized was a coms campaign to go with it. We spent all this money on the regulatory process to make sure that operation warp speed was able to develop and distribute these vaccines. But we haven't really put all the messaging and he communication strategies necessary to make this easy for people to make a informed choice. And that's why we're still at, what, 59 point, one % vaccinated.

You’re six to ten times LESS likely to catch COVID-19 if you’re vaccinated, and thus less likely to infect others. Great! But what about breakthrough cases? Who’s at risk for them? How many folks haven’t gotten vaccinated? Should pregnant people get the ol’ jab, what might happen with transmission rates in 2022, yearly booster questions, the ethics of vaccine distribution, myocarditis, Long COVID, quarantine fatigue and essentially whether the holidays are a good idea.

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