Posted on 10/01/2022 9:05:17 AM PDT by lightman
A majority of U.S. adults will not get the updated COVID-19 booster shots soon, according to a new survey.
Just 5 percent of those surveyed said they’ve already received a booster and 27 percent said they will get one as soon as possible.
The rest said they will wait and see, only get one if required, definitely not get one, or cannot get one because they have not received a primary series.
That’s according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation that was carried out from Sept. 15–26 among 1,534 U.S. adults. The margin of error was plus/minus 3 percent.
Older adults were more likely to have received or plan to receive an updated booster. Forty-five percent of those 65 and older fall into one of those categories. Just three percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 have received an updated booster, and just 23 percent said they will get one as soon as possible.
Updated Boosters
The updated boosters are made by Moderna and Pfizer. The old boosters, which are no longer available, only contained the Wuhan strain of the COVID-19 virus. The new ones add a spike protein component with elements of BA.4 and BA.5 to the Wuhan component, making it a bivalent.
The bivalents are unproven; results for tests in humans weren’t available before the Food and Drug Administration authorized the shots on Aug. 31, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended them for virtually all Americans aged 12 and up who have received a primary regimen, regardless of how many prior boosters a person has received.
Approximately 7.5 million of the bivalent shots have been administered through Sept. 29, according to the CDC. Before the rollout, the CDC said that some 209 million Americans were eligible to get an updated booster.
People should not get a booster if at least two months have elapsed since their last dose of a vaccine, according to the CDC. Authorities have generally recommended not getting another shot within three months of a COVID-19 infection. Recovering from COVID-19 gives a person strong protection; studies have shown that protection from natural immunity is superior to that conferred by vaccination.
Little Knowledge
Many adults know little about the new boosters, including 66 percent of adults aged 18 to 29, according to the Kaiser survey.
Half of adults said they know a little or nothing at all about them, with older Americans being most likely to answer they know some or a lot.
Democrats were most likely to say they knew some or a lot, while Republicans were least likely and independents were in the middle, when the results were broken down by party affiliation. That pattern also manifested when people answered about their intention or opposition to getting a booster. A fifth of Republican respondents said they definitely will not get an updated booster, versus 8 percent of independents and 6 percent of Democrats.
Further, the vaccinated were more likely to answer they knew some or a lot, though 19 percent of unvaccinated persons said they knew a lot, compared to 16 percent of the vaccinated respondents.
I fall into the third category (got the initial J&J single shot, and if I had a do-over would not do even that).
However, I disagree that there are NO purebloods that regret not getting jabbed. Some I know are now dead, or seriously damaged from COVID. We can’t know that the vaccine would have prevented it, but the ones still alive wonder ‘what if’.
This mysterious disease affects people differently, based on a whole range of factors that we still don’t fully understand.
When I got the flu vaccine, I was asked about the ChiCom flu vaccine. I calmly said, “No. Any health care professional pushing an experimental gene therapy is committing malpractice and receives zero respect or trust from me.” (I practiced that knowing I would be asked, especially the calm part.)
Thanks for info. My doctor said he wanted me to get flu shot as late as possible. Already showing up in NJ. Wanted to wait until Nov.
I took the shots in late spring of 2021. Shortly after I was "fully vaccinated", the Israelis came out and said their citizens need to be boosted. At that point, I speculated the vaccination program was a failure and haven't taken a jab since then.
Right. I raised that question some time ago. Me thinks our blood supply is tainted.
If the right one don't get you, the left one will.
I dunno, maybe if they test it on 16 mice instead of 8...
I’m sure I will. I’ve been watching the weather reports in Hell and when that thermometer goes down enough I’m grabbing my coat and off to the nearest WalMart.
I found it odd that one could wear a mask in a liquor store or a bank and no one even noticed. 🧐
Posted on 9/28/2022, 9:09:30 AM by DoodleBob
Vaccine efficacy for the current season only group was 37%, for the current season and the previous season group was 20%; and for the previous season only group was 9%.
Don’t need to be vaccinated if you already had the Rona.
Imho.
5.56mm
“Still wondering about the safety of the US blood supply...”
wow, i never thought about that, though i should have ... what’s the chances spike proteins and/or spike protein mRNA is still floating around in some donated blood/plasma products ...
Very true. It must have been tough on people who worked in convenience stores and such, not having that clue that someone was about to rob the place.
Personally, I haven’t been in a liquor store in a very long time. Not that I never drink, but the stuff’s usually cheaper at Walmart. As for banks, I didn’t wear masks into them even when the mandates were in effect, and nobody seemed to care.
Like your screen name, by the way. I always wanted one of those.
Why do that one fifth of the unvaccinated know so much about a shot there is zero likelihood they will ever allow into their bodies?
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I must be missing something with your question... Well duh, it’s because the non-EGT’d know so much that they won’t let it into their bodies. The ones that know squat are the ones that are willing to get the shots... and that’s because they are clueless. My experience by the way is exactly along that line. I’ve attended many many events where it was obvious (and not even close) that when a discussion of WuFlu comes up, the non-EGT’d know vastly more than the EGT’d...
Indeed. I refuse to play this idiotic game.
The fascists tried to force us to get the damn jab by firing us and demonizing us. My salute to the jab fascists is “NO Wucking Fay!”
I have a vaxed/boosted relative waiting for the new combo jab. He tells me they protect people longer than natural immunity. The CDC told him so.
never again
A co-worker got her booster this week. I cringed when she told us.
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