Another Casualty of COVID-19: Global Solidarity

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This week, I received my first dose of the vaccine. For months I had been in limbo, waiting impatiently for the Governor of Texas to announce his readiness to add essential workers to the next phase of priority groups. That never happened. Instead, I got my shot as any other member of the general public, not as an “exalted” grocery worker. I bristled at the thought that the personal risk I took to my own…