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Half of Public Has Heard Little or Nothing About the New COVID-19 Booster Aimed at Omicron
Kes: For the past two years, I've received text notifications from the local health center where I receive my primary care and the local Walgreen's where I receive my vaccinations regarding Covid-19 vaccinations but, this year, radio silence. In past years, I could walk in to the local Walgreen's for my vaccinations, which I thought would be the same procedure this year, since I didn't receive any notifications that it would be different, but when Alexx and I went in last week, we were told we had to make an appointment online or by phone. We tried sitting down right there and making an appt., but would have had to wait around for over two hours, or go home and come back, and by then it would have been the crowded rush hour, so we made an appt. for the next day. By the next day, Walgreen's had run out of the booster vaccine, so now we have an appt. for Monday.
My point is, the places dispensing the vaccine seem to be making both the information and the vaccine a lot less available this year, at least in the public health sector.
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: September 2022
Grace Sparks
excerpt from article at
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use
Key Findings
The new, updated, bivalent COVID-19 boosters are now available for use, but the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey finds that awareness of the updated boosters is relatively modest, with about half of adults saying they’ve heard “a lot” (17%) or “some” (33%) about the new shots. About a third of all adults (32%) say they’ve already gotten a new booster dose or intend to get one “as soon as possible.”
Intention is somewhat higher among older adults, one of the groups most at risk for serious complications of a coronavirus infection. Almost half (45%) of adults ages 65 and older say they have gotten the bivalent booster or intend to get it “as soon as possible.”
In late August, the
Food and Drug Administration authorized
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use
the use of new, updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters that target both the new omicron variants and the original strain of the virus. The bivalent boosters
(one by Moderna and one by Pfizer) are now authorized for use by those ages 12 and older who have gotten an initial series of a COVID-19 vaccine, including
those who have already received one or more boosters.
Awareness of the new boosters is modest, with about half of adults saying they have heard “a lot” (17%) or “some” (33%) about updated booster, 31% saying
they have heard “a little,” and one in five saying they have heard “nothing at all” about the new booster doses.
Older adults and Democrats are somewhat more likely than their counterparts to say they have heard at least “some” about the new boosters, but fewer than
a quarter across these groups report hearing “a lot” about the new shots.
Half Of Adults Have Heard "A Lot" Or "Some" About New, Updated COVID-19 Booster Dose frame
My point is, the places dispensing the vaccine seem to be making both the information and the vaccine a lot less available this year, at least in the public health sector.
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: September 2022
Grace Sparks
excerpt from article at
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use
Key Findings
The new, updated, bivalent COVID-19 boosters are now available for use, but the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey finds that awareness of the updated boosters is relatively modest, with about half of adults saying they’ve heard “a lot” (17%) or “some” (33%) about the new shots. About a third of all adults (32%) say they’ve already gotten a new booster dose or intend to get one “as soon as possible.”
Intention is somewhat higher among older adults, one of the groups most at risk for serious complications of a coronavirus infection. Almost half (45%) of adults ages 65 and older say they have gotten the bivalent booster or intend to get it “as soon as possible.”
In late August, the
Food and Drug Administration authorized
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use
the use of new, updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters that target both the new omicron variants and the original strain of the virus. The bivalent boosters
(one by Moderna and one by Pfizer) are now authorized for use by those ages 12 and older who have gotten an initial series of a COVID-19 vaccine, including
those who have already received one or more boosters.
Awareness of the new boosters is modest, with about half of adults saying they have heard “a lot” (17%) or “some” (33%) about updated booster, 31% saying
they have heard “a little,” and one in five saying they have heard “nothing at all” about the new booster doses.
Older adults and Democrats are somewhat more likely than their counterparts to say they have heard at least “some” about the new boosters, but fewer than
a quarter across these groups report hearing “a lot” about the new shots.
Half Of Adults Have Heard "A Lot" Or "Some" About New, Updated COVID-19 Booster Dose frame
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Oops, I didn't mean to go off-topic. I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and I mistakenly thought you were too. :)
I tried the first of the Scholomance novels - I love her Temeraire series - but it was just dark for me, I'm afraid. I tend to be seeking out lighter fare these days, thank you pandemic. ("Lighter," of course, being a relative term for a hurt/comfort reader.)
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"Also, there are a lot of characters who are over fifty in it, which is really refreshing."
That is refreshing.