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Few Americans get new covid booster shot ahead of projected winter surge
WaPo via MSN ^ | October 7, 2022 | Dan Diamond, Mary Beth Gahan , Mark Johnson

Posted on 10/07/2022 9:06:09 PM PDT by DoodleBob

...Federal officials have spent the past year urging Americans to get booster shots to bolster their protection against the coronavirus, which wanes over time....But the campaigns have lagged badly. Only about 105 million U.S. adults — roughly 40 percent — have received the third shot of vaccine initially offered a year ago, according to federal data, a far lower rate than countries like the United Kingdom, where more than 70 percent of adults have gotten a third dose. That figure is also well behind the 200 million U.S. adults who completed their primary series of shots.

Early data shows that just over 11 million Americans — or about 4 percent of those eligible — have received the new bivalent booster shots.

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“I blame the federal health bureaucracy,” agreed Jon Favreau, a host of “Pod Save America,” a progressive podcast, and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama... Right after Biden announced the booster plan, Favreau sought out and got a third booster dose — not waiting for the health agencies to act. “I had a baby at home that was unvaccinated, and I didn’t want to take my chances,” he recalled.

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...there is little appetite to try to persuade employers to mandate booster shots, said Ezekiel Emanuel, who coordinated efforts to persuade many health care organizations and universities to compel them last year. Emanuel said that while he believes such organizations should require the new shots, he has no plans for another campaign, citing legal challenges and other complications.

“A lot of people who were vaccinated later got omicron — I think that’s not getting enough attention when we talk about the appetite for boosters,” Emanuel added. “People have become a bit cynical about the vaccines’ benefit. I know people who have gotten four shots and still got infected.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boosters; covid; covid1984; shots; winter
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1 posted on 10/07/2022 9:06:09 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

That just won’t do.


2 posted on 10/07/2022 9:07:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DoodleBob

I’m declining the flu shot for the 2nd year.


3 posted on 10/07/2022 9:07:34 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: DoodleBob

even though fauci is crying wolf?


4 posted on 10/07/2022 9:07:45 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: DoodleBob

if they want to commit suicide, go right ahead.


5 posted on 10/07/2022 9:07:57 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: DoodleBob

The lab rats want to thank the scientists for saving them again—with humans as test subjects!


6 posted on 10/07/2022 9:10:21 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: DoodleBob

“...projected winter surge...”

Okie dokie.

#pureblood4life


7 posted on 10/07/2022 9:12:59 PM PDT by cranked
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To: DoodleBob

💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉
💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉
💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉


8 posted on 10/07/2022 9:13:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DoodleBob

Gee, maybe something to do with the article posted right after this one was?


9 posted on 10/07/2022 9:14:04 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: DoodleBob

The disengaged proletariat is finally awakening to the evil Empire.


10 posted on 10/07/2022 9:16:06 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: DoodleBob

With information readily available today, I find that number disturbing. People do not know how to think nor craft a research question.


11 posted on 10/07/2022 9:20:11 PM PDT by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: DoodleBob

Yep, the Democrats are in charge...More threats, warnings and tales of lurking danger...Gezzuz.


12 posted on 10/07/2022 9:42:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: DoodleBob

Originally they told us herd immunity would kick in once 70% of Americans got the virus. I’m sure we’re well past that so they can ESAD.


13 posted on 10/07/2022 9:45:33 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: dynachrome
I’m declining the flu shot for the 2nd year.

Who would ever trust the medical industry to take any shot again? especially one given out on a sidewalk?

14 posted on 10/07/2022 9:46:12 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DoodleBob

There is a reason God gave us two arms.

One for the flu shot, the other for the mRna


15 posted on 10/07/2022 10:10:35 PM PDT by algore
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To: dynachrome

That’s okay. They’ll just put it in Zombie Mosquitoes!


16 posted on 10/07/2022 10:11:06 PM PDT by old school
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To: DoodleBob

I got three shots. Still got covid. Anyway. It worked against the original strain. That virus is no longer here. We all have some form of immunity to the virus so we are in a different shape than we were in March ‘20.


17 posted on 10/07/2022 10:13:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DoodleBob; All

People are being told unless they are in high risk groups they’re not allowed a booster because the CDC guidelines.


18 posted on 10/07/2022 10:14:24 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Giant meteor 2022!!!)
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To: DoodleBob

it’ll be a winter of sickness and death... right???


19 posted on 10/07/2022 10:15:23 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: DoodleBob

The new shot hasn’t been out long, and many have already had the BA.4/5 variant, probably including myself. No hurry.


20 posted on 10/07/2022 10:21:51 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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