'Our behavior is sucking the energy out of our health care personnel and especially our nurses. They are exhausted with caring for people who will not care for themselves, who will not listen to reason or science. They are leaving in droves.'
Jason Miller holds his daughter, Teagan, as she is vaccinated against COVID-19 by Tenzin Drongsar at South Main Public Health Center in South Salt Lake on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021.As I sit in the walk-in vaccination clinic week after week helping to vaccinate the citizens of Cache Valley against COVID, it occurs to me that we now have a whole new set of jargon we were not previously familiar with. We have become familiar with words like pandemic, variants, Moderna, incubation and quarantine.
But it is not the nature of viruses to remain the same. As COVID evolves to delta and mu and now omicron, it becomes a crap shoot which populace or age group will be most vulnerable. When people talk about delaying getting the vaccine to see the long-term effects, I wonder what about the long-term effects if you survive the disease?
The virus has killed over 800,000 people in the United States alone and it is not done yet. That is close to the populations of Seattle or San Francisco. It is not about political party, religion or what language you speak. It is about getting your immune system to begin making the antibodies to fight this disease. Just like many childhood diseases, to fight COVID we need a booster to keep it effective.
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