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Alton Ashby was standing barefaced inside a Best Buy in Vero Beach, Fla., on Saturday when an employee at the Geek Squad counter approached and asked him to put on a mask. Ashby refused, police say.
Instead, according to an arrest affidavit, Ashby proceeded to “cough, sneeze and spit” all over the counter and around the store.
“We had customers leave due to the incident and we have to now sanitize all of Geek Squad and home department,” Steve Abidin, a Best Buy employee, told the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office following the incident.
The 51-year-old Palm Bay resident eventually left, only to be pulled over by police and arrested for disorderly conduct.
Florida, which has had about 1.1 million coronavirus cases and more than 19,700 deaths, according to The Washington Post coronavirus tracker, does not have a mask mandate. But Indian River County instituted a mask requirement in July and extended the order last month. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has banned local governments from enforcing mask mandates. But because Best Buy as a company requires masks, the governor’s order doesn’t apply.
[V]accines will not mean the immediate end of the pandemic. Emergency approval of the first vaccine, expected this week by officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be only the first step in a rollout that presents staggering logistical challenges.
Masks and social distancing will continue to be necessary. Because vaccine supplies will be limited at the outset, priority will be given to those most at risk of infection. That means it will probably be months before the average American is eligible for a shot.
And for all the enthusiasm about the vaccine — and a determination Tuesday by the FDA that it is safe and effective — there are swaths of people who, like Martinez’s neighbors, are apprehensive. For many, the speed with which the vaccines have been developed and evaluated by the Trump administration is reason to be cautious.
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Significant questions also remain about how the vaccines will preform in the real world. The CDC says it is not clear yet how long the immunity conferred by the vaccines will last or when precautions such as mask-wearing and social distancing can safely be abandoned. There is also a chance that people who are vaccinated could still spread the virus if they subsequently become infected.
Data from the trials shows the vaccines to be generally safe, but federal officials said there will be what are known as “adverse events” as the vaccines are rolled out, and they are planning to monitor their safety.
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