COVID communications tools This week, I have mostly a passel of graphics to share with you. (If you don’t speak cowboy, that means “a bunch.”) But we do need to cover some items of interest first. COVID is in fact on the rise in Wisconsin. According to the CDC, hospitalization rates for COVID are relatively low. But they are showing a steady increase in…
Love and Vaccines
Stuck together, or not as the case may be
Writing a newsletter like this, it’s easy to assume that you’re preaching to the choir, literally and figuratively. We don’t get a lot of feedback on the content, and what does come in is almost always positive.
But there are people with serious concerns about the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines and deep reservations about taking them. Or at the very least, people who believe that scientists haven’t made the case for vaccines.
You get a new booster, and you get a new booster
You all get new boosters!
Spoiler alert: the CDC is recommending basically everybody get a COVID booster this fall. That’s a good thing! There’s also a program to pay for shots for people with no or inadequate health insurance. That’s an even better thing!
With the highlights out of the way, let’s get into the weeds a little. As anticipated, the FDA has approved a new round of booster vaccines against COVID. At least, they’ve endorsed two of the three possibilities: Moderna and Pfizer. Booster doses of those two vaccines could be available as early as the end of this week.
However, the FDA did not give the green light to Novavax, the only non-mRNA vaccine available in the U.S. That’s been held up for undisclosed reasons, though it’s expected to be available before too long.
This is great news, but what does it mean for you, and for the church? To answer that, we have to look at who can get the shots, and who should get the shots.
So, uh, let’s do that?