Injection of Light: Hope Rebooted

"Of science and the human heart, there is no limit..." This week I received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine—a miracle drug that replaced existential dread with expansive hope.

Cathleen getting the Johnson & Johnson jab. Photo courtesy of her iphone and the clipboard guy’s photographic prowess.

At 1:54 p.m., Tuesday, a nurse injected 0.5 mL of JNJ-78436735—the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine—into the deltoid muscle of my left arm.

I didn’t even notice the needle when it went in, tears of a relief too profound…