More doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are slowly becoming available to more and more groups of people, but the majority of Americans are still waiting their turn in line to get vaccinated while others at higher risk of exposure to or serious illness from the virus are given their shots first. If you’re one of those people who is still waiting in line but have watched others in your orbit get the vaccine, you might have felt a twinge of potentially unwelcome vaccine envy if you started to think about the kinds of everyday things that someone who is vaccinated might be able to do again.
Today on AirTalk, we want to hear about how you’re handling vaccine envy, whether personally or within your family or friend groups. If you’ve received the vaccine already, have family members or friends expressed being jealous? Or have you dealt with your own feelings of envy towards someone else who already has the vaccine.
Guest:
Carla Javier, KPCC/LAist community engagement reporter who has been following vaccinations; she tweets