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A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.

One expert called the rates “abysmal.”

The numbers, presented Thursday at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans, conducted two weeks ago.

The data also indicated that nearly 40% of adults said they probably or definitely will not get the shot. A similar percentage of parents said they did not plan to vaccinate their children.

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[–] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I was waiting until a little closer to Thanksgiving, but I just had a long extended exposure, so now I'm just waiting 5 days so if that if I just got exposed i can wait for Christmas to extend my immunity

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

What did they think was going to happen when they stopped operating public vaccination sites?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

People are over covid. No one cares about it anymore. I think this is due to bad government messaging during covid.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got the jab plus two boosters and I still got Covid twice. I credit the vaccine for helping my body prepare itself to fight it off, but I feel like my immunity is high enough at this point to not concern myself with getting an annual booster, especially if I have to pay for it out of pocket. Plus the side effects are pretty severe compared to the mild viral symptoms I usually experience.

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[–] Polipopsa@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

While the daily number of cases and deaths are announced every day, why did the governments not disclose the vaccinated/unvaccinated rates in the number of cases and deaths, so that we could understand the difference (if any) ?

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