, Columnist
Vaccines Bring Home the Failure of Herd Immunity
Letting the disease rip now looks almost impossible to defend.
What we’ve all been waiting for.
Photographer: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images
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It’s time for some good news. A few hours before I wrote this, my father (who is 83 and had a nasty case of pneumonia a few years ago) phoned to tell me that he will be having his first Covid-19 vaccination shot this week, with a second to follow in the first week of January. My 81-year-old mother will get her jabs at the same time. The British rollout continues apace, just as the introduction of the same vaccine is ready to start in the U.S.