COVID Bits

  • The UN World Health Organization has backed a goal of 40 percent global vaccinations this year—and 70 percent in 2022.
  • Vaccines are recommended—even for adults and children who previously contracted COVID. It’s unclear how well natural immunity protects against new infection and how long it lasts.
  • Only Maine, New York and Rhode Island have vaccine mandates for health care workers that lack religious exemptions.
  • According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, undergraduate enrollment—from the fall of 2019 to this semester—the number of undergraduate students has fallen by 6.5 percent.
  • “The main reason to authorize vaccines for young kids is not an altruistic one of safe-guarding other vulnerable people; it’s to protect the kids themselves.”—CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana S. Wen, former health commissioner of Baltimore.
  • More than 5 million eligible Floridians remain unvaccinated.
  • Florida is still the only state that updates its COVID caseloads and data just once a week.
  • Bribe vibe: Pinellas County commissioners have approved a program to pay $750 to each county employee who gets vaccinated.

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