Give vaccine passports a chance

Can we completely eliminate risk? No. But like masks, vaccines serve the function of not simply protecting us, but protecting our community.

Letting COVID-19 spread among a partially vaccinated population is like a person with a bacterial infection taking antibiotics at too low a dose. It won’t kill all the bacteria and the ones that remain will be those with some capability to resist the antibiotic. Every time a person develops COVID-19, the virus mutates countless times and the virus strains most capable of replicating and transmitting infection to others will be selected. As time goes on, these new variants will look less and less like the virus used as the model for existing vaccines.

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Anti-vaccine movements have always been with us, but it existed on the fringes. This is different. A cynical political calculus has whipped up an anti-vaccine frenzy and convinced a third of the country that the vaccine must be avoided. To his credit, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is hitting this head-on. Vaccine resistance is putting us all at risk. In many ways, it allowed the Provincetown outbreak to occur.

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