06-29-2021, 07:48 PM
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(06-24-2021, 06:45 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It may seem like Santa Clara County would not be entirely typical of the nation in the differences among ethnic groups in vaccination rates, but actually, it pretty much is.
Similar rates are seen in other large cities. Looking at King County, where Seattle is located, 70 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, but the success is not equally shared. Among American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Seattle ages 12 and older, vaccinations are on pace with (or ahead of) the city as a whole. Among white residents, 66 percent have completed their vaccine series. But just more than 50 percent Black and Latinx residents are fully vaccinated.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/as-u...Kf4BDBf744
Those are indeed grim numbers. I'm already deeply concerned that either this new Delta variant (or some other potential future strain) is gonna potentially set us back to square one in our fight against this pandemic, sure so far the vaccines have remained effective against all the variants and that's good, but that's not necessarily gonna be the case for future ones.
The CDC is already backtracking and recommending (though not enforcing, *yet*) that everyone (including fully vaccinated people) continue to wear masks out in public for the foreseeable future, and no matter how much people like us are doing our part, all the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers out there will sadly continue to be around to hamper progress. The main fear that I have is that the longer it takes to fight this pandemic and the mask and social distancing requirements (as well as all the other Covid-19 guidelines and restrictions) remain necessary (as they almost surely will be as long as large populations continue to remain unvaccinated and we continue to have dangerous new strains/variants), they'll become so deeply entrenched in both the national and global psyche that they'll become permanent (or at least until we enter the next Awakening in circa 2046-2047). I really do hope I'm wrong about all this, but it's worth noting that there were a few experts (back in March or April, I think) who thought it could take as long as 2027 or 2028 for the pandemic to fully end (basically around the time our 4T will end).