I wonder how many people are getting a third shot unofficially. I imagine that some of those listed as newly vaccinated are actually people who’ve decided they want a third shot and are gaming the system to get it.
Everybody here who argues with you seems to be part of a fairly small highly anti-vax population who doesn’t trust the medical establishment and is ready to take action based on their beliefs. There is another group of firmly pro-vax people who also don’t trust the medical establishment (who could?) and they will also take officially unapproved actions based on their beliefs.
If this is so then the CDC numbers will be increasingly misleading.
“I imagine that some of those listed as newly vaccinated are actually people who’ve decided they want a third shot and are gaming the system to get it.”
We definitely saw that when the vaccines were initially in limited supply, and lots of folks not yet authorized, got “creative” to jump the line.
I’d be surprised if no one was jumping the line for boosters.
I talked with a woman in her eighties today, who was trying to get a Moderna shot as a booster to her two Pfizers, just yesterday. Not authorized, but she got an appointment, and only got kicked back at the last minute, when the needle was already out on the table.