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How To Navigate Life When You're Vaccinated And Others Aren't (Or Vice Versa)

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

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Summary

A little more than half of adults in the U.S. have had at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means a growing number of Americans are figuring out how to navigate life in a hybrid society where some people are vaccinated and some are not.

Two experts offer advice on how to do that: Dr. Leana Wen with George Washington University, and Dr. Monica Gandhi with the University Of California San Francisco.

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0:00.0

Natalie Lane and her husband have two little kids, a seven-year-old and a toddler.

0:05.6

Another family just down the block has kids about the same age.

0:09.7

She actually told me, like, you know, my husband's gotten the vaccine.

0:13.2

I've got my second dose scheduled and she made the comment that, like, you know, I really

0:18.1

hope our sons can get together this summer and play.

0:20.8

In not so many words, I hope you're getting vaccinated too.

0:25.1

Well, the good news is that Natalie and her husband are.

0:28.2

It was just, it was such a breath of fresh air to have somebody reach out and say, like,

0:32.3

hey, our children can play together because the four adults in the group are vaccinated

0:37.1

and it's going to be safe.

0:39.7

The reason that felt like a breath of fresh air is that in Draper, Utah, where Natalie

0:44.4

lives, not everyone has quite the same attitude about vaccines.

0:48.7

I have a neighbor who has boys, the exact same age as my boys and they seem like lovely people

0:54.5

and I would love to get to know them more when I told her from across the driveway, like,

0:58.6

hey, I'm getting my vaccine next week.

1:00.2

She said, oh, I don't mind about that kind of thing.

1:02.8

That's never mattered to me.

1:04.2

And I'm like, I know.

1:06.6

That's why we can't hang out yet.

1:09.4

Consider this.

1:10.4

We are gradually becoming a kind of hybrid society.

1:13.4

My uncle got the shot.

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