Unvaccinated
Anyone who’d rather have COVID-19 than get vaccinated is taking two gambles: that immunity will stick around, and that symptoms won’t - Katherine J. Wu
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Treating the Unvaccinated
Near the close of the First World War, Ferdinand Foch, the Supreme Allied Commander, rejected a ceasefire request from the Germans. The two sides were actively negotiating the Armistice; it was clear that the end of the war was imminent. Still, the negotiations continued for several more days, and between Foch’s refusal, on November 8, 1918, and the signing of the Armistice, just after 5 a.m. on November 11th, nearly seven thousand men were killed and thousands more were injured. News that the war would end at 11 a.m. that day was transmitted immediately to both Allied and Central commanders. Still, as Adam Hochschild detailed in a 2018 essay for The New Yorker, the fighting continued: there…
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Covid Is Now a Crisis for the Unvaccinated
The single best thing we can do for such people, though, is to get everyone around them immunized.
Delta Variant Widens Gulf Between ‘Two Americas’: Vaccinated and Unvaccinated
Data from overseas, particularly Britain, suggest the spread of the virus will set vaccinated and unvaccinated communities on very different paths.
If you're unvaccinated, please take a moment to reconsider, reevaluate
If you’re unvaccinated, I am not asking you to get a shot; I’m asking you to give your decision a second thought and what it means to others.
It’s easy to judge the unvaccinated. As a doctor, I see a better alternative
Idon’t ask “Why?” when a patient with Covid-19 tells me they are unvaccinated for the same reason I don’t ask why someone whose alcohol level is four times the legal limit decided to drive, or the badly burned grandmother with emphysema lit a cigarette with oxygen prongs below her nose.
It’s Time to Start Requiring Covid Vaccines
In short, we are reaching the limits of the voluntary approach to vaccinations. As we have seen in the past month, the vaccination rate is insufficient to prevent a new wave of infections from the Delta variant, especially in areas where the rate is especially low. A new “pandemic of the unvaccinated” threatens to reverse much of the progress made this year.
Mandate the vaccine, not masks
Vaccines are the solution to Covid-19. Let’s make the most of them.
Our Fellow Evangelicals Need to Get Vaccinated
The pathway to ending the Covid-19 pandemic runs through the evangelical church. Tens of millions of evangelical Christians live in the United States, and almost half of white evangelicals surveyed have said they are reluctant to get vaccinated against Covid. For many outside the evangelical world, this resistance seems incomprehensible.
The 4 main fault lines that divide the vaccinated and the unvaccinated
Age, race, income, and, of course, politics.
Who Are the Unvaccinated in America? There’s No One Answer
One segment of people who have avoided shots is vehemently opposed to the idea. But there is a second group, surveys suggest, that is still deciding.
C.D.C. Director Warns of a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
“Our biggest concern is that we are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and, sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated,” Dr. Walensky said.
How to reach the unvaccinated: the risks of bribery and coercion
Experts warn of the ‘polarising effect’ of both vaccine passports and gimmicks to persuade reluctant citizens to take the jab.
The 6 reasons Americans aren’t getting vaccinated
This is the challenge the US has to overcome to get back to post-pandemic normal.
U.S. COVID Deaths Are Rising Again. Experts Call It A 'Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated'
"There is a clear message that is coming through: This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC's director, said at a Friday briefing of the White House COVID-19 Response Team. "Our biggest concern is we are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and sadly deaths among the unvaccinated."
Unvaccinated Americans Are Behind Rising Covid-19 Hospitalizations
“There is a clear message that is coming through: This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday at a White House briefing. She said more than 97% of patients entering the hospital nationwide are unvaccinated. “Our biggest concern is that we are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and, sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated,” she said.
What It’s Like to Do Vaccine Outreach in One of the Least Vaccinated States
I think the biggest for us is just the new technology. People don’t trust whenever they hear mRNA. People commonly think that those vaccines work by altering your own DNA. Obviously, that’s not true. So we’re just making sure that we try to explain that to people in the most simple way.
What Makes the Delta Variant of Covid-19 So Dangerous for Unvaccinated People
A unique combination of mutations led to this more infectious version of the coronavirus, prompting revised mask guidelines
‘It’s too late’: US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine
What the US government is calling “the pandemic of the unvaccinated” is playing out in painful ways as some realize too late that they wish they had had the shot, while others hold out even as they suffer in hospital amid a national surge of new Covid-19 infections, primarily caused by the Delta variant.
“Everybody Knows That It Will Get Worse”
My parents are physicians in unvaccinated America. It’s starting to feel like they’re in a different world.
Treating the Unvaccinated
... doctors are facing a wave of preventable COVID deaths—and trying to convince the hesitant that “it doesn’t have to be this way.”
The unvaccinated are at risk as evolution accelerates the covid-19 pandemic
The variants make vaccination programmes more urgent than ever. But though they may march on through the alphabet for some time to come, there is some reason to hope that they will not get all that much worse as they do so. They may be running out of evolutionary room to manoeuvre.
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