![]() ![]() Mine is lighter, and cheaper it's just a simple surgical mask. I also wear anti-virus body armor, just as my daughter, a noncombatant in Afghanistan had, to wear her armor. But staying home gives me a much better chance to avoid COVID and to keep them from getting it. Even putting limits on public behavior is hard I want to go to a restaurant, want to hug my daughter, and see my son. Quarantine works, but people don't like it. With a strict quarantine, this disease would have been crushed 150,000 lives ago. Stay home lock down the economy hold until there are no new cases. The hardest tool to use in epidemiology is quarantine. Herd immunity didn't work in Sweden, and anyway, getting there will cost 100,000 lives. Far into the future, physical protection will be important to crush this bug. They are a lot more certain to give protection even than a vaccine. We do have, however, good physical defenses against COVID-19. Related: The Latest Rundown on the Military's Coronavirus Cases And it will take months upon months to line up everybody and get them protected. It will probably take two shots, a few weeks apart, to give you a good chance of immunity. It could be months before there is enough for every American. If a vaccine becomes available next month, when will you be able to get it? Not immediately. Vaccines don't always work there is no way to know if your shot worked for you. I wouldn't cross the street if I thought there was a 1 in 200 chance it would put me in a coffin.įor now, we lack any biomedical defenses against COVID-19. Go into a crowd where there are sick people including some who don't know they're carriers. There isn't enough Regeneron for everybody the latest studies say Remdesivir doesn't help much, if at all. And about 1% of all those who get sick, well, they die. Many victims go through a week or two of agony, short of breath, aching badly, running a high fever, but then get well. My daughter caught the bug a few months ago, lost her sense of taste for two weeks, and felt poorly. Even if you've had the jab, if you get exposed to the virus you could have the chance of a coin flip of getting infected. If it's like most vaccines, it will only be 50% to 80% effective. And it would be a disservice to the consumers of news - be they readers, listeners or viewers - for me to become emotional and to get carried away.But first, let's suppose we got a vaccine by the end of the year. The more I ratchet down my emotions, even the tone of voice because people are depending on you for accuracy, dispassionate descriptions of what’s happening. “The more intense the news story I cover, the cooler I want to be. ![]() And I personally feel that I passed my stringent test for that in Baghdad,” Shaw told NPR in 2014. “In all the years of preparing to being anchor, one of the things I strove for was to be able to control my emotions in the midst of hell breaking out. Working with colleagues Peter Arnett and John Holliman, Shaw gave dispatches from the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, taking shelter where he could as cruise missiles were heard flying around him. Shaw’s tenure at CNN was also remembered for his on-the-ground reporting during the Gulf War in 1991. The president did not appear to be hurt, according to United Press International.” Shaw would later be joined on air by former CBS News journlaist Daniel Schorr, and his work helped cement the impression that the nascent news outlet meant to be a bigger part of the business, despite its start-up status. “We can report that shots were fired as President Reagan left the Washington Hilton hotel following that address we carried live here on CNN. We don’t know the sequence,” Shaw said, according to Napoli’s account. CNN’s broadcast of the news was ahead of the mainstream networks by about four minutes, according to an account of the report by journalist Lisa Napoli in her book “Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Birth of 24-Hour News.” Information was so vague and the details so disquieting that Shaw neglected to clip on his microphone before addressing viewers of CNN. But his time at CNN helped launch a new era in the business, one in which a cable upstart could have as much meaning to news aficionados as established newspapers and broadcasters.Īt CNN, Shaw was co-anchor of “PrimeNews,” the network’s evening broadcast, and among the first big events he helped present was the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. He worked for CBS News as a Washington correspondent between 19 and covered both Latin America and Capitol Hill for ABC News in the latter part of that decade. Shaw already had enjoyed a distinguished career before he arrived at CNN. ![]()
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