The Memorial Day weekend has everybody enjoying the maskless season for the first time in one year. However, while these glimpses make one hopeful, the unvaccinated crowd is more at risk, and this is great fear in the minds of health officials. The risk that unvaccinated people pose is two-fold. Firstly, they are risky for one another because they might be symptomatic or asymptomatic carriers that have not been detected.
Unvaccinated People Need To Be Protected During The Memorial Day Weekend
The virus infection will immediately trigger responses as they are not immunized against it. Secondly, the vaccinated individuals have only received the first shots and are in the process of building immunity against the virus in their bodies and are themselves carriers. So the unvaccinated may contract the virus straight from the vaccinated folks too.
According to Dr. Leana Wen, medical analysts working for CNN, the people who have received all the shots and are fully vaccinated are to feel best protected. “Those who remain at risk are those who are unvaccinated,” Wen told CNN on Saturday. “And that includes children who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated as well as adults who just have not been vaccinated yet.”
A majority of the population is still to receive their first shots and only 40% of the American population is fully vaccinated. Therefore, there is concern about the remaining bunches of people till all of them are fully inoculated. And so those people who are unvaccinated are now still at high risk because we do have more transmissible variants, and unfortunately, those individuals who don’t have immunity are not protected from these variants that can wreak a lot of havoc,” she said.
The Vaccine At Holiday Approach
Incentivizing vaccination programs to crowds that want to step out has been a great way to get the desired numbers. The latest drive that New Jersey state has undertaken announces itself as “Shots on the Shore” where people hitting the shores get a chance to go for a single shot of Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
People in the age group of12 to 15 years can go for the Pfizer shots. Gov. Phil Murphy has overseen that the revelry goes on with adequate protection taken to protect people from the virus. Vaccination sites are set up in Pier Village, Sandy Hook, Long Branch, and Asbury Park from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Memorial Day weekend, Murphy said.
New York City has buses parked at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Rockaways and Governors Island. The Governor Mr. De Blasio has been taking the initiative to ensure more and more people are vaccinated. “We’re going to go the extra mile, whatever it takes,” said de Blasio. “You’re going to see our vaccine buses out all over New York City the next few days. Go, get vaccinated, hit the beach. Real simple.”
The Miami beach attracted a lot of crowd and this led to trepidation by Mayor Dan Gelber. Mr. Gelebr mentioned to CNN saying, “We’re one of the few places open, but we’re also a very attractive destination. So simply, too many people are coming. The virus is still here. The volume of people that have been coming here is very unprecedented, and some who are coming are looking to sort of act out.” In order to ensure that rules are followed, he said that heavy and enormous patrolling by police officers will be in place over the long weekend. There was no talk of vaccination spots or drive near the Miami beach.
The best prevention statement came in from the Transportations Security Administration, which studies air traffic travelling through Friday and Saturday and their spokesperson posted on Twitter – “We’re creeping up to 2 million. Please wear your mask, respect TSA/airport/airline crew, arrive early & pack your patience!”
