With Biden becoming president, he has began cracking down in efforts to end this global pandemic. His goals include: increasing the amount of vaccination sites, the government will purchase more doses, and more people will be able to get the immunization.
Right now the people that qualify for a vaccine include: health care providers, front-line essential workers, and politicians. Eventually once vaccines become more available they will be offered to elders aged 65+, people aged 16-64 with underlying medical conditions, and other essential workers such as people who work in transportation and logistics, food service, housing construction and finance, information technology, communications, energy, law, media, public safety, and public health.
Talking to students and professors on Morningside’s campus, one major question is why aren’t colleges becoming a priority for this vaccine? English and CIC professor David Elder said, “Students live and congregate with groups of people all day, every day and professors are also exposed to these students and meet with them for in-person classes, making college staff, faculty, and students a highly exposed area that should be considered much more seriously.”
Hopefully, with Biden in office, he will be able to offer the United States’ Colleges and Universities more access to vaccination doses and cites.