President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a ceremony at the White House on Monday to honor the lives lost due to COVID-19. In one year, more than 500,000 people have died from the virus. Despite that grim remembrance, there is an end in sight.

The Food and Drug Administration is set to approve the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for emergency use, so it can join Pfizer and Moderna as another tool to fight the pandemic. The stringent vaccine requirements that remain aren’t helping the situation. Neither are conversations about “equity.”