News Alerts

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For a while I was getting daily Yahoo News alerts on my phone about the coronavirus. Those stopped for a while, and then I started getting daily election news alerts, as different things developed. Then those stopped. Today I see the coronavirus updates have started again, with a headline about how the CDC has officially recommended that people not travel for the Thanksgiving holiday (one week from today!)

I also caught this interesting article suggesting that paying people $1000 to take a vaccine might just be the price we have to pay to achieve herd immunity. Though it mentions that the number of people who said they would take a vaccine went up 8% between September and October polls (and since the latest vaccine news in the past couple weeks, I've seen more people specifically mentioning they would take it ... or at least fewer people saying "no way"), so maybe vaccine hesitancy will become less of an issue...