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Editor's Note by Scott Sutherland

Executive Editor, NFPA Journal

Up for the Fight
n April, I received my first
dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech
COVID-19 vaccine. I joined
a line of people snaking
through a convention center
in downtown Boston, eventually ending
up in a vast room filled with long rows of
numbered stations where invited guests
were asked to take a seat and roll up their
sleeves or remove their sweaters. The atmosphere was hushed and somber, but also
just a little bit giddy.
I was assigned to a spot midway down the
row, staffed by a crew-cut young man wearing National Guard fatigues and a bored
expression on his face. As he prepped the
syringe, I asked him how many shots he'd
delivered since he began administering vaccinations, partly out of curiosity and partly
to distract myself from the needle.
" I dunno, " he said, casually jabbing my
upper arm as if he were wielding a toothpick to test a pan of underbaked cornbread.
" Maybe 675. "
I couldn't tell if there was any validity to
this stat or if he was just picking a random
number to humor me. What was abundantly
clear was that small talk with civilians was
not a part of his orders, and that the only
thing that mattered was getting needles into
arms as quickly as possible. He jotted a few
notes on my vaccination card, handed it to
me, and said " All set. "
This was health care on an industrial
scale, driven by the ruthless efficiency of

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the assembly line, and I couldn't have been
happier. Just weeks earlier, it had seemed
that the prospect of vaccination was distant
at best-I'd been guessing July at the earliest, and was resigning myself to a second
summer of masks, distance, and dread.
The vax machinery may have been slow to
engage, but once it did it quickly achieved
an impressive momentum-we were figuring
it out on the fly, learning lessons as we went
along. For the most part, it was working.
That learning curve was the subject of
a cover package, " Learning From Covid, "
that appeared in this magazine exactly a
year ago, and it is remarkable to consider
how far we've come since then. Even so, the
pandemic challenge continues: since my
first shot, Michigan has experienced a fresh
COVID outbreak, and in India nearly 1 million people tested positive over the span of
three days. Variants are proliferating. The
viral world is nothing if not tenacious.
That's exactly the kind of threat NFPA
has defined and fought for 125 years. This
anniversary issue of NFPA Journal is filled
with examples of NFPA codes and standards,
advocacy efforts, and large-scale publiceducation campaigns that together have
improved safety for millions of people worldwide. The fight continues; like coronavirus
itself, threats have a way of mutating and
presenting new challenges. The good news is
that NFPA has been up for that fight for 125
years, and I have no doubt it will be up for it
for 125 more.

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Scott Sutherland
ssutherland@nfpa.org
ART DIRECTOR

Doug Sternberg
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