It’s unprecedented for individual states and cities to override the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of which have resisted the Biden administration’s boosters-for-all push amid concerns about global equity.
. Despite the threat of their waning effectiveness, the vaccines are preventing millions of infections and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.that were spared the worst of Delta’s summer surge — signaling a potential seasonal spike partially driven by fading immunity.Last winter was the worst phase of the U.S. pandemic — a time when more than 3,000 Americans were dying of COVID each day and more than 250,000 were testing positive.
Currently, fewer than one in three U.S. seniors — by far the most vulnerable age group, and the one that federal officials are most eager to reach — have received booster shots. That number plummets even further, to fewer than one in seven, among all Americans who got their second dose at least six months ago.. Roughly 80 percent of eligible Israelis have already received boosters.
“I just don't get [the] ‘vaccine wasn't designed to prevent infections’ line,” Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco,.
3. The vast majority of U.S. adults are already eligible anyway. They just don’t realize it because of mixed messaging from Washington, D.C.“I’ve been very frustrated with the convoluted messaging out of the CDCV and the FDA,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” In effect, this made at least 89 percent of U.S. adults eligible for boosters six months after their previous dose, according towhich is affiliated with Harvard Medical School.That’s largely because 75 percent of U.S. adults have a body-mass index of 25 or more, which the CDC considers “obese” — anddepression, a current or former smoking habit, high blood pressure and a recent pregnancy.
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