Given how recent variants have led to pediatric hospitalizations, it remains a critical tool.īut an even better solution remains tantalizing. Parents shouldn't wait for a universal vaccine to get their children vaccinated. The current COVID-19 vaccine is an effective way to keep children safe from serious illness. Additional such sites, including on Long Island, would be helpful. Kathy Hochul rightly is making a push to encourage parents to do so before the school year starts, offering pop-up sites in a "#vaxtoschool" initiative. Parents have been particularly hesitant to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19. Underscoring the importance of research and focus on a pancoronavirus vaccine is the current response to the existing vaccine and its boosters. If a universal vaccine proves to be as game-changing as scientists say, attention and funding are necessary now. That will take more than just a summit or bits of incremental progress. Public health officials need the right tools as soon as possible so they're prepared before the next battle begins. A new deadly strain of the coronavirus, or another pandemic, could have dangerous consequences. But so far, experts have said that the urgency that accompanied the Operation Warp Speed attempt to develop the initial COVID-19 vaccine is missing, resulting in a slower pace of research - and a slower flow of funding. Researchers already are studying potential pancoronavirus vaccines in animals and analyzing how to best neutralize multiple strains at once. But researching and developing such a magic elixir - known as a "pancoronavirus" vaccine - will take funding, commitment, and a partnership between private drugmakers and public officials, along with an extra push from the federal government to prioritize such an effort. Though the expression is still common, as time passes the knowledge of where it comes from is falling out of public memory.Jha is right, of course. Several fairground history sites online suggest that the game fell out of favour in this more careful and litigious age because of the number of young people who hurt themselves reaching for the rings. pokes fun - not nice gentle fun - at our supposed mad round of reaching-for-the-brass-ring-existence.”īut references to a literal brass ring go back into the 1890s, as in this from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of 24 September 1899 about the famous Coney Island amusement park: “This big place has been the rendezvous for thousands of children who have spent their nickels and have enjoyed a ride on the ponies, besides trying their best to capture the brass ring, which the boy drops in the big iron arm that is swung out at the side of the merry-go-round.” The earliest example of the expression I can find, and that already an elliptical one that shows the writer expected everybody to know what was meant, appeared in the Daily Northwestern of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on 3 August 1931: “The current anonymous volume ‘The Merry-Go-Round’. Quite when it started to be used in this way isn’t clear. Grabbing the brass ring, going for the brass ring or reaching for the brass ring were all used to refer to the opportunity to compete for a grand prize.
Another system had a dispenser of rings, most of which were steel and had no value, but one per ride was the brass one that won the prize.īrass ring came to have the figurative sense of a prize, in particular one that was hard to gain. Anyone who managed to retrieve it could redeem it for a free ride.
Once the ride started moving, a metal arm was swung out - on some rides this held a single brass ring, which riders could try to grab as they passed. At one time, the riders on the outside row of horses were often given a little challenge. We are in the fairground, specifically on a carousel or merry-go-round. But even a cursory glance at American newspaper archives shows that the expression is common a recent example is in Ebony for 1 April 2004: “If you’re like the millions of women who are on the go - grabbing for the brass ring, focusing on the family or trying to shatter that glass ceiling - it’s past time for you to take a step back and concentrate on finding the real you.” In response to a plea for help, John Baker of the American Dialect Society made the key connection and from then on it was plain sailing. Q From Liam: When people go for the brass ring, what exactly are they going for? Why is a brass ring a symbol of success? Wouldn’t a platinum ring be even better?Ī This one stumped me, as my cultural background doesn’t include grabbing a brass ring as a measure of success.
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