The article I read was called “A third of Americans might refuse a Covid-19 vaccine. How screwed are we?” I got this article from Vox and it was published on September 10.

The article talks about how ever since the pandemic started public health experts have given the advice of flattening the curve. They expect the curve to flatten with the help of social distancing, lockdowns, contact tracing, etc., and then wait for a vaccine. The hope was, and still is, that a mass vaccination campaign can restore the world to normal.

There are several problems with the success of a vaccination. First of all, the vaccine has to be effective and there needs to be enough of it. Another problem is if people will even choose to get the vaccine or not.

Vaccine refusal looks like a real possibility. A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll asked respondents if they’d take a free vaccine before election day and 54% said they would decline.

In my opinion these statistics are pretty unsettling. I get that some people are antivaxers and are scared of vaccines but I can’t tell you the things I would do to make the world go back to normal. I vaccine seems very far fetched at this point, in my opinion.

Vaccines take a long time to make and the trial process is a long one. And now we’re learning that even if there is a vaccine half the world won’t get it. This isn’t the best news but honestly I haven’t really heard good news about Covid as a whole. This is just another example of getting used to this new world that we live in today.