Clarke County Democrat

‘Vaccination remains single most important tool’ against Covid-19


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Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama’s state health officer, put the hay down where the goats could get it in a news conference Tuesday. The goat adage of course is that you can’t make a goat eat even if it is good for him. Alabama has a lot of hard-headed goats.

Talking about the latest strain of Covid, the Omicron variant, he called it “extremely contagious… more contagious than the original strain…And it is spreading like wildfire. It will inflect everyone in this state at some point, probably, or most of them.”

Some reports say that while Omicron is very contagious, it isn’t as severe as the original Covid or the Delta variant. Maybe, but it affects everyone differently. You can still die from any form of Covid.

Too, more people are being hospitalized with Omicron. If the hospitals fill up and medicines go for it, what happens if you have some kind of other medical emergency and can’t get the attention you need and die. Is Covid by extension to blame?

There is an answer. Dr. Harris explained it yet again Tuesday. “So we really need people to do the single most important thing they can do to protect themselves, which is to be fully vaccinated and boosted when it’s appropriate to do that…vaccination remains the single most important tool we have to prevent serious illness or death.”

The shots are free and readily available. Why people persist in not protecting themselves — and others — is incomprehensible.

But we go back to the old saying about the goats and the hay.

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