Americans are Sick of Vaccination Amid Flu Season, COVID Boosters: Data; COVID Vaccine Poll Finds More Than Half of Adults are Likely to Say ‘no thanks’ to the Vax, and other C-Virus related stories
Americans are sick of vaccination amid flu season, COVID boosters: data:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of complacency.
That’s the message delivered today — as the viral disease season begins — by Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at a news conference attended by The Post.
“Sadly, we lost 21,000 people to flu last season,” Cohen said, noting that vaccine hesitancy has worsened in recent years: “Last season, fewer people were getting the flu vaccine than they were pre-pandemic.”
Cohen emphasized that COVID-19 remains a threat, especially for vulnerable populations.
“Half of our young children in the ICU with COVID have no underlying conditions,” she noted, adding that the updated COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for everyone — even toddlers — over the age of 6 months.
The threat goes beyond COVID-19 and flu, however: “We are already seeing a rise in RSV cases and hospitalizations,” Cohen added, referring to respiratory syncytial virus.
Cohen joined other experts at the news conference in noting how their own children and family members had already started getting vaccinations to fend off this winter’s “tripledemic.”
“As a CDC director and a mom and wife and daughter, I wouldn’t recommend something to the American people that I wouldn’t do with my own family,” Cohen said. “It’s exciting that we have these tools.” —>READ MORE HERE
COVID vaccine poll finds more than half of adults are likely to say ‘no thanks’ to the vax:
Among U.S. adults, 52% say they will “probably” or “definitely” not get the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor poll.
Conversely, 23% of adults “definitely” plan to get the vaccine — while another 23% will “probably” get it.
Among the people who said they “definitely” or “probably” will get the new shot, most are Democrats and/or at least 65 years old, the poll found.
Seventy percent of Democrats plan to get the new vaccine.
That’s compared to just 24% of Republicans.
The survey, which was conducted between Sept. 6 and Sept. 13, polled 1,296 U.S. adults via online and telephone polls.
Based in San Francisco, KFF is a self-described “independent source for health policy research, polling and journalism.”
“The poll shows that most of the nation still trusts the CDC and the FDA on vaccines — but there is a partisan gap, and most Republicans don’t trust the nation’s regulatory and scientific agencies responsible for vaccine approval and guidance,” KFF’s president and CEO, Drew Altman, said in a press release. —>READ MORE HERE
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