Every Reason Why Getting Vaccinated Is Better than Getting COVID-19

Amanda Hanemaayer
4 min readOct 1, 2021
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When 91-year-old Margaret Keenen became the first person worldwide to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, the public sphere erupted with applause.

The event was documented as a groundbreaking step forward in our common fight against the coronavirus pandemic — and rightly so. Scientists around the world had been working tirelessly…

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Amanda Hanemaayer

Striving to live a life defined by empathy | writing about climate change, public health and social justice