The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting
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We understand how this will end.
But who bears the risk that remains?
Whereas doctors and nurses treat sick individuals in front of them, public-health practitioners work to prevent sickness in entire populations.
They are expected to think big.
They know that infectious diseases are always collective problems
because they are infectious.
An individual’s choices can ripple outward to affect cities,
countries, and continents;
One sick person can seed a hemisphere’s worth of cases.
Double-jabs can still tackle rising COVID-19 numbers
“The numbers are worse than expected because we have this patchiness of vaccination uptake.
And then, the Delta variant really does demand a higher number of
those vaccinated to get to that place where you can nip things in the bud,”
The United States Government’s contribution of 146,250 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Tuesday which signals a turning point in Guyana’s vaccination campaign as children aged 12 and above are targeted.