Yesterday, the Rainbow Push Coalition, which the Rev. Jesse Jackson founded in 1996, issued a statement related to Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77. Both tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus and were reportedly admitted to Northwestern. Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Here’s a tweet from Rainbow Push Coalition with this statement:
As you can see, they didn’t provide much information about the Jacksons’ situation and why precisely they were hospitalized. Presumably, this means the Jacksons have more than one mild case of covid-19. Both are more at risk of more severe covid. -19 as they are over 65 years old. In addition, Reverend Jackson suffers from a chronic illness. In 2017, the veteran civil rights leader who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, as he had done in the past for Forbes.
On the one hand, Jackson has a great asset in his favor and rhymes with Mr. Bean, Dancing Queen and Charlie Sheen: the Covid-19 vaccine. Jackson has already been vaccinated. In fact, in January, Jackson won a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a televised event, as shown in this Associated Press video:
Jackson hoped the occasion would inspire other black Americans to get vaccinated. A recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that “the vaccination rate for blacks is less than 50 percent in 33 of the 42 states reported, adding 6 states where less than one-third of blacks have gained one or more doses. “And in 40 states, “the % age of whites who gained at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine (50%) about 1. 3 times the rate for blacks (40%) and 1. 1 times the rate for Hispanics (45%) as of August 16, 2021. “
Many on social media presented their wishes for the couple. For example, Bernice King, daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and executive director of The King Center, tweeted the following:
And what Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) said:
Ah, unsurprisingly, some on social media, adding unnamed accounts, took the opportunity to claim that Jackson’s hospitalization for covid-19 shows that covid-19 vaccines don’t work. For example, a tweet from an unnamed Twitter account read, “Why are Democrats promoting a racist vaccine for everyone,” even though others of a wide diversity of races and political leanings have won the vaccine so far. Another tweet from an unnamed account claimed: “So if the vaccine helped shorten his illness, why is Jesse Jackson in the hospital?Band of lies! I bet Abbott was never given. A tweet reaction from an anonymous Twitter account read: “Jesse Jackson fully vaccinated in hospital with Covid once again PROVING vaccines DON’T WORK. “He showed that lack of spell checking can lead “once” to typos.
Any claim that Jackson’s case “proves” that covid-19 rarely works well would be false, false as a strip of sandpaper, and just as irritating. Do you ever point to a leaky ceiling and say, “Look, this shows never a roof” or a tear in your pants and say, “Does this PROVE that pants DO NOT work?
Remember, no genuine medical expert has ever said that covid-19 vaccines would be one hundred percent effective. Vaccines are not like concrete condoms for the whole body. While they may particularly decrease your risk of contracting severe COVID-19, you shouldn’t be fully vaccinated. It won’t be a license to play Twister with strangers or start panting about others. As the virus continues to spread widely, it will be important to take other precautions against Covid-19, such as social media. Distance yourself and put on a face mask, even if you are already fully vaccinated. While the pandemic remains a public fitness emergency, Covid-19 precautions involve applying other protections, in addition to simply choosing one and abandoning the others. After all, would you say before a homework interview or a date, “Since I’m dressed in my underwear, why wear pants or shirt, right?”
Experts were still expecting breakthrough infections to occur. An infection occurs and is severe enough to get you to the hospital doesn’t mean the vaccine hasn’t worked. An analogy would be to wear a seat belt in a turn of the car’s destiny and exclaim, “seat belt,” or pull down your pants, “ugh, that underwear was useless. “Quite the opposite. The underwear was on the ball, so to speak.
Hopefully, getting vaccinated will provide the Jacksons (assuming his wife has also been vaccinated) enough cover to weather the Covid-19 storm. Vaccination has exposed Jackson’s immune formula to the spike protein that usually nails the surface of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which makes the virus look like a pointed massage ball. Seeing this spiked protein ahead of time better prepares Jackson’s immune formula for the arrival of the real virus, as does preparing a team for the playoffs until the end. presenting them with a projection report or game movie of their warring parties in advance.
Jackson, who is known for his fiery speeches on civil rights, did not go on to his speeches absolutely unprepared. Similarly, his immune formula also did not enter this fight with the Covid-19 coronavirus unprepared. And it can make a big difference.
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