Vaccinate if you can - Be smart

This letter is in response to Dr. John Farrar’s column of Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 in the Seeley Swan Pathfinder about COVID-19 vaccinations. Dr. Farrar, in highly science-y terms, shared some very credible information on how our immune systems works. Not the whole story, but some useful info. Sadly, he closed his column with an implication that vaccines for COVID-19 are not necessarily that important and perhaps should not be trusted.

Dr. Farrar effectively covers the weakness in the vaccine as far as stimulating the Mucosal Immune System we all possess. Simultaneously, he inadvertently downplays t...