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CDC FIGURES SHOW JUST HOW FEW OVER-50S HAVE HAD COVID VACCINE BOOSTERS

By Ed Browne On 8/22/22 at 6:16 AM EDT

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Millions of eligible U.S. adults have not yet had a COVID booster vaccine, data
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows, as the U.S.
heads into the winter.

That's despite the fact that unvaccinated U.S. adults aged 50 or older were 14
times more at risk of dying from COVID than those who had two or more booster
shots as of June, according to another new CDC dataset.

That report also shows that adults aged 50 or older who had one booster shot had
a 3 times higher risk of dying from COVID compared to those who had had two or
more.



The CDC recommended a COVID booster vaccine—an extra shot to boost immunity in
people who had already been fully vaccinated against COVID—in some populations
in September 2021. Access was further expanded to other populations before a
recommendation for a second booster dose in March this year.

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A pharmacist prepares a COVID vaccine dose at a vaccination center in London,
England, in March, 2021. Increased vaccine uptake may help ease a harsh COVID
winter, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said. Chris Jackson/Getty

However, despite the rise of Omicron over the winter and the spread of the BA.5
variant, uptake of booster shots in the U.S. has been lackluster.



While 77.2 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 or over have completed their
initial COVID vaccine courses—two shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one
of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine—just 51.5 percent got their first booster dose,
according to CDC data.

Uptake of the second booster dose, which is currently only recommended to adults
aged 50 or over and some people aged 12 and older who are immunocompromised, is
even lower, with 33.2 percent of people aged 50 and older getting their second
dose as of August 17.

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This month's booster data also shows that infection rates were also
significantly higher in unvaccinated people than in those who had been
vaccinated.

As of mid-July the incidence of infection per 100,000 people was 776 in
unvaccinated people, compared to 219 in people who had had two booster shots.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), said on August 2 this year that people may be in for a harsh
COVID winter if vaccine or booster uptake isn't increased soon.

Speaking to Los Angeles radio station KNX News 97.1, Fauci called the U.S.
vaccine and booster rates "quite discouraging" and added that people must get
protected from COVID "so you don't give this virus such ample opportunity to
circulate."

This still applies to people who aren't concerned for their personal risk, Fauci
said, because the longer the virus is allowed to spread, the more chance it gets
to mutate into new variants that could be worse than the last.


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The low booster uptake comes as the U.S. government is planning to stop paying
for COVID vaccines and treatments, meaning the bill would be shifted to the
private healthcare industry and possibly onto the consumer as a result.

"My hope is that in 2023, you're going to see the commercialization of almost
all of these products. Some of that is actually going to begin this fall, in the
days and weeks ahead. You're going to see commercialization of some of these
things," White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said at an event
on Tuesday last week.


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