Jenavive on learning about the science of vaccines

“My first thought when I heard the vaccine was available for ages 12 and up was a few things. The first thing that I thought was an excited thought and how much science has grown in just this amount of time, and I thought, ‘Will we be going back to “normal”?’ I thought an excited thought about the vaccine because it has been almost 1.5 years since the pandemic started.

 

When it first started, I remember researching how the vaccine was being made, and how long it would take to find a vaccine that is safe and that will work. I was so excited because it normally takes much longer to make a vaccine like this, so science has grown so much.

 

I also was excited because with science we learned how to fight a pandemic and how to fight it if one were to happen again. It makes me excited to get back to a world without masks and social distancing. It makes me happy to get back to something that we used to call ‘normal.’