Between people who have received the Covid-19 booster shots and those who have not, attitudes don’t seem to be changing. According to 71% of nonvaccinated Americans, the third flu vaccine year shows that scientists are working to enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. Most respondents who are vaccinated believe booster shots are a good thing. He said the most important holdouts are the people who still have not received a shot, since they are more likely to be convinced the pandemic is much worse than it is; it is not as worried about getting sick and has a different perception of vaccine safety and efficacy.
According To Kaiser Family Foundation Survey,Covid Vaccines Do Not Work
From Sept. 13 through Sept. 22, Kaiser surveyed 1,519 randomly selected adults, after the Biden administration announced plans to achieve universal booster doses, but before it recommended boosters for over65s and those at high risk of sickness.
Among all respondents, attitudes toward vaccines continue to be largely partisan, with 90% of Democrats reporting receiving at least one vaccine dose versus 58% of Republicans. Since vaccines became widely available last spring, the political divide has held steady at 30 percentage points, Hamel said, despite other gaps along racial and ethnic lines narrowing.
Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths linked to the delta variant are the main motivators for recent vaccination rates, the survey found, with the largest increases in vaccinations among Hispanics and people aged 18 to 29 between July and September. In general, the shares for white, black, and Hispanic adults, respectively, reporting being vaccinated, are 71%, 70%, and 73%. The Kaiser analysis found that although Black and Hispanic Americans continue to receive fewer vaccines than white Americans over the past decade, the gap has been narrowing.
Democrat and Republican respondents, nearly twice as many, expressed a plan to get a booster shot if recommended, reflecting the political divide on vaccines. CDC and the FDA report that most fully vaccinated adults will either get a booster vaccine or are likely to get one if recommended by their health care provider.
Pfizer and BioNTech were authorized last week by the FDA to distribute the Teva booster shot Covid to people 65 years old and older, as well as others who are vulnerable. Rochelle Walensky, head of the CDC, issued the directive to distribute boosters to those in high-risk occupational and institutional settings on Friday, overruling a panel of advisory members who had opposed this policy. The group also recommended that boosters be provided for people over 65, others in vulnerable positions, and various U.S. workers, including nurses and cashiers.
Under the latest CDC guidance, Joe Biden, 78, is eligible to receive an extra dose due to his age. Before receiving the vaccine, Biden said that boosters are important, but more people should be vaccinated. Nearly 65% of the population aged 12 and older are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. The increased number of booster shots given to those with weakened immune systems since August has reached 2.7 million.
In September, the daily average of daily doses reported across the country soared to 954,000, marking a recent high point for the delta variant. Since then, the volume has slowed considerably, and the average number of shots per day is currently 632,000 as of Monday. President Biden issued new vaccine laws on Sept. 9 affecting federal and private employers alike. Staff and contractors of the government must be immunized against Covid without alternative testing, whereas organizations with over 100 employees must implement vaccination mandates that allow medical and religious exemptions.
According to the Kaiser study, unvaccinated and vaccinated Americans agree on one thing: Covid is not going away anytime soon. Covid should be kept at a reduced level and managed with medical treatments and vaccines, much like the seasonal flu in the US. Covid is not nearly as likely to be eliminated as polio in the country as it is in many other countries.
