Wired – “Vaccines are rolling out across the US. These tips will help you figure out where to find an appointment in your in your area, and how to prepare. The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is wreaking havoc on the US right now. It accounts for 89 percent of the 85,000 daily reported Covid-19 infections among Americans. Delta is more transmissible than earlier strains of SARS-CoV-2, and it increasingly is putting younger, healthier people in the hospital compared to what we witnessed in 2020. But some good news: the data is in, and Covid-19 vaccines are working. It’s time to get a shot. The vaccines might not prevent you from catching Covid-19 entirely. Delta can still break through, but the point of being vaccinated is that even if you do contract the Delta variant—or any other variant—you’ll have a much more mild illness. Breakthrough cases—even mild ones—are still quite rare. So far, less than 7,000 people (0.004 percent of the 160+ million fully vaccinated people) have developed a case of Covid-19 severe enough to cause hospitalization or death. The three vaccines used in the US have been taken by hundreds of millions of people around the world by now, and they’ve been found to be safe and effective. All three use unique technologies to stimulate an immune response in your body, but none of them involve injecting a live virus into your arm. In short, they cannot get you sick with Covid-19…” Updated August 2021: We’ve updated information on where to find vaccination appointments, statistics about the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, and which vaccines are available for kids aged 12 and over…”