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how does vaccine misinformation lead to only 7% of adults taking the most recently available vaccination? there's either some other reason (or a few other reasons) or 93% of people subconsciously desire a return of the pandemic. it cant be that, can it? maybe it's partially availability or lack thereof, but it seems like that cant be the only reason.
vaccinations protect us when everyone we interact with gets vaccinated. that's how it works.... right?
As someone who got the latest booster, my take is that people believe that COVID has mutated to be less deadly. The fact boosters have been so long in coming and are still often hard to find (still haven't been able to get our kids boosted, and we live in a major metro), combined with that perception of COVID has led to these low rates.
I am not sure if COVID has become les deadly, but I would believe it: I haven't seen it affect anyone nearly as badly since the most recent strains became prevalent. That, and most of the people I know were vaccinated before, and though looking for boosters, aren't as scared of COVID and will get them when they can.
Essentially: people view COVID like the the flu now, and as far as I know, that seems like it might be fine.
COVID isn't a flu, and treating it like it isn't fair when you can be completely asymptomatic and spread it to someone who may have a really bad reaction to it.
The thing about the flu is that it has very obvious symptoms. You're not getting the seasonal flu without knowing it. Meanwhile you may never know you have COVID, spread it to an immunocompromised person, and they die.
That’s really surprising so me, everyone I know was waiting for the new booster like it was Taylor Swift tickets, avoiding events until two weeks after they got it, calling around to pharmacies 50 miles away to get it a few days early. It was required for my work.
I live in a very liberal, very affluent Bay Area county, I don’t know if that’s related.
I have an appointment to get it next week. That's pretty much the earliest appointment I could get. I can't really blame people for not getting vaccinated if it's not available.