{"id":45487,"date":"2020-12-10T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45487"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:13:52","slug":"yes-bring-on-the-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45487","title":{"rendered":"Yes, bring on the vaccine!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I am astonished to learn that about one-third of Americans polled say they wouldn’t take a COVID vaccine if it is offered to them.<\/p>\n

That’s the bad news. The good news is that two-thirds of us would take it.<\/p>\n

You may count me as one American who is ready and more than willing to take the shot in my arm when it becomes available to folks such as me.<\/p>\n

I am an elderly American. However, I suffer from zero<\/em> pre-existing conditions. Which means I am a bit down the list of recipients. That’s OK. I am fine with that. The first responders need it now, as do nursing home residents.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pfizer and Moderna both boast of 95 percent efficacy in their proposed vaccines. From what I have heard that is an exceptional success rate. Docs are calling it “extraordinary.” That is good enough for me.<\/p>\n

I want to take the vaccine. I have long been a proponent of mandatory vaccines for children. I took them all as a kid because Mom and Dad insisted I become immunized against childhood illness. I passed that insistence on to my own sons when they were in school.<\/p>\n

An anxious nation awaits Food and Drug Administration approval of the Pfizer vaccine. I am one anxious American. If the FDA gives it a “go,” and if the drug firm is able to get it distributed, I will wait patiently for my turn.<\/p>\n

When they call my name, I will be there to take the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I am astonished to learn that about one-third of Americans polled say they wouldn’t take a COVID vaccine if it is offered to them. That’s the bad news. The good news is that two-thirds of us would take it. You may count me as one American who is ready and … Continue reading Yes, bring on the vaccine!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9423,9568,9261,9559],"class_list":["post-45487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-covid","tag-fda","tag-pandemic","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45488,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions\/45488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}