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During a family gathering in Truckee, California, Lopez said there was one theme throughout the conversation: Covid-19 vaccines will soon be in the arms of Americans, bringing hope that the pandemic will finally end.
Enrique Lopez, 46 years old, is the owner of a snow removal business.
`I know a lot of people are scared. They don’t know what the side effects will be,` said Mr. Lopez, who saw half of the company’s workforce infected with nCoV.
After months of anticipation, the vaccine finally appeared, covering a country both ravaged by the virus and deeply divided in every aspect.
The Lopez family in Truckee, California, hopes the Covid-19 vaccine will bring back normal life.
The first Americans will be vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the coming days, and officials are expected to approve other vaccines as well.
Stephanie Bennett, a mental health nurse in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said she understands the importance of the vaccine and plans to get vaccinated soon when it becomes available.
Still, Bennett feels a double responsibility as a vaccination nurse to help ease her neighbors’ vaccine skepticism.
`There’s a lot of distrust in the community. I want to prove to people, at least in my family and neighborhood, that this is safe,` Bennett said.
However, even some people know the level of devastation the virus is causing, they are still cautious.
Maria Isabel Ventura, 59, lives in Blythe, California, a rural area near the Arizona border, witnessed the dangers of this virus on November 22.
She asked: `Why not vaccinate the president and the people who developed this vaccine first? I fear this vaccine more than anything because we don’t know what the reaction will be? Maybe in the future?`
An Associated Press poll, released this week, found half of Americans are willing to get vaccinated.
Authorities are moving to dispel doubts about the vaccine’s safety, concerns that have long been raised by historical abuses by the US healthcare system.
Adam Wyatt, 38, pastor at First Baptist Church in Leakesville, Mississippi, decided to sign up for Moderna’s vaccine trial after one of his parishioners died of Covid-19 in August.
Wyatt considered visiting patients in the hospital one of his most important duties as a pastor.
He didn’t tell many people about his decision after signing up for the trial in Hattiesburg, about an hour’s drive west of his small town.
The vaccine is in the process of being widely used.
Aesha Mahdi, 42, who lives in Gwinnett County, Georgia, also knows about the dangers of the virus.
Ms. Mahdi, who wants to be vaccinated, now works as a contact tracer, helping to slow the spread of the virus.
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Aesha Mahdi eagerly waited for the vaccine.
For others, the emergence of Covid-19 vaccines creates ethical challenges.
Others eager to get vaccinated worry about being last on the priority list.
Now, he worries a similar situation will happen with vaccines.
He had heard that healthcare workers and other emergency workers would be given priority.
The emergence of a vaccine is also raising hopes for a return to normal life.
`If you imagine the Supreme Court, every door is open, everyone is in the hallway leaning against the edge of the door, talking, chatting and laughing,` judge Cantil-Sakauye told reporters on a call.
She and her colleagues have debated whether judges and other court officials should be prioritized for vaccination.
But Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye said she ultimately believes judges cannot `stand in name` and be vaccinated before emergency workers and nursing home residents.
`We think everyone else needs to get vaccinated first,` she said.
Bryan Diaz, 15, of Nuevo, California, also longs to return to a normal life.
`I feel happy because we can go back to school,` he said.
Bryan, whose father is a mechanic and mother is a homemaker, knows several people, including his godfather, who have contracted the virus.
`We talked about this, but my parents don’t want their children to get vaccinated when the vaccine is 100% safe,` he said.
David Leavitt, a novelist and English professor at the University of Florida, said the prospect of a vaccine gave him the feeling: `Wow, this is going to end. I really don’t.`
When the pandemic is over, Leavitt looks forward to traveling again to Italian book fairs.
So, as he waited for his turn to get vaccinated, he lived by the motto in his favorite movie `The Twelve Chairs`: `Always hope for the best but still be ready for the worst.`