A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas for Kyra Winslow, a St. Thomas sophomore who died in a car crash Saturday on Interstate 94 in Wisconsin.
Those interested in attending can RSVP through TommieLink, as seating is limited, but there will be overflow seating available in Schoenecker Hall, in the lower level of the Iverson Center for Faith.
The service will also be livestreamed on the Chapel’s Facebook page.
People may wonder, can I stop wearing a mask after getting the COVID-19 vaccine?
The answer is no. For a couple reasons, masks and social distancing will still be recommended for some time after people are vaccinated.
To start, the first coronavirus vaccines require two shots; Pfizer’s second dose comes three weeks after the first and Moderna’s comes four weeks later.
People are expected to get some level of protection within a couple of weeks after the first shot, but full protection may not happen until a couple of weeks after the second shot.
It’s also unknown whether the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines protect people from infection entirely, or just from symptoms, Deborah Fuller, a vaccine expert at the University of Washington, said.
That means vaccinated people might still be able to get infected and pass the virus on, although it would likely be at a much lower rate.
In the small farming community of Murdock, Minnesota, the city council has voted to grant a permit that allows a controversial Nordic heritage church that has been identified as a white supremacist group to gather at an abandoned church.
The vote Wednesday night came after the council was advised by the city attorney that rejecting the Asatru Folk Assembly’s request could violate its religious rights.
The AFA is among groups that seek to practice a pre-Christian, European spirituality and, according to a statement on its website, it’s pro-white.
AFA board member Allen Turnage has said the church would not admit a Black person “because they’re not of northern European descent.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center has added the AFA to its list of hate groups.
Kyra Taylor can be reached at tayl2806@stthomas.edu.