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Title: JetBlue announces it will stay at corporate
headquarters in Long Island City
Summary: JetBlue, New York’s hometown airline,
is staying grounded in Long Island City. The
announcement comes months after the airline
contemplated moving its headquarters to Florida.
Reach: 5,361 (as of 08/09/2021)
Avoiding the worst
Th e delta variant of COVID-19 continues
to spread across the city, driving
infection rates higher across the fi ve
boroughs.
But unlike the situation in New York
at the height of the pandemic, life goes
on. Businesses are still open. People are
out and about enjoying the city as they
did before COVID-19 arrived on our
doorstep. Th ey’re gathering at ballparks,
outdoor concerts and restaurants, taking
part in all the normal activities of
city living that were off -limits when the
virus fi rst raged on.
It’s not because New Yorkers have
adopted a devil-may-care attitude and
are throwing caution to the wind. You
still see plenty of people wearing masks
and frequently rubbing their hands with
sanitizer while out in public.
All of this is possible because of the
COVID-19 vaccine — and, more importantly,
what the vaccine does for the
city’s hospitalization rates.
Delta is spreading in New York City
just as it is in other parts of the country
like Missouri and Louisiana. But the situation
isn’t nearly as grim as it is in the
south, where vaccination rates are low
and hospital rooms are teeming with
gravely ill patients.
City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave
Chokshi has said that the vast majority
of New Yorkers being hospitalized
today for COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
Imagine how packed the city’s hospitals
would be right now if no vaccine existed.
Undoubtedly, it would rival the horrifi
c period of March-April 2020, when
every hospital in the city had refrigerated
trailers parked outside to store the
bodies of the COVID dead because their
own morgues were over capacity.
Th e COVID-19 vaccine will help
you either avoid infection completely,
or reduce the infection to just mild
symptoms. It is overwhelmingly safe;
more than 180 million people nationwide
have already received the shots and
are living their lives.
And getting the shot not only allows
life to go on across the city, but it also
keeps the hospitals in manageable condition.
It allows health care workers to
focus their care on a relatively small
number of COVID-19 patients while
handling all the other medical emergencies
they face, without being overwhelmed
or put at risk of infection and
death themselves.
No matter what vaccine incentives
the government dreams up, there is no
greater incentive to get vaccinated than
to ensure our ability to end this pandemic,
and avoid the worst case scenario.
Photo via Getty Images
As the delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread across the city, make sure to get vaccinated.
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