Random thoughts: Covid-19, vaccines, failure and perseverance
Short essay by Catherine Carroll Word count: 735 At the beginning of September, I began a part-time, temporary position with a regional nursing association to give influenza and Covid vaccines. In this role I was primed to think of my own vaccine immunization, especially with an upcoming vacation that involved airline travel. On September 25th I went to Walgreens for both my influenza and Covid vaccines. My flight departed on September 30th and I didn’t want to invite a repeat of my March India trip Covid experience. Image copied from: The Role of Failure in Learning: How to Embrace a Growth Mindset. ETHRWorld , by Abid Hasan, April 28, 2023. After a 35 year career in health care, the last two years prior to retirement almost completely dominated by Covid, on October 2nd I was thrilled and to learn that Katalin Kariko, Ph.D and her research partner, Dr. Drew Weissman, had won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for their research on mRNA whil...