It’s been a little over a year since we’ve been living under a pandemic, and already the media is referring to this point in time as “The COVID Era.”
The stirrings of economic activity following a robust vaccination program in places like Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom lead one to believe that the pandemic is coming to an end. For the rest of the world, the COVID Era may go on for quite a bit longer. That includes The Philippines, where, at the rate we are going, epidemiologists say that we will not reach herd immunity till 2029.
That is the most conservative estimate, of course. With millions of doses of Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca expected to arrive in the next…
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