Will Americans get a life-saving COVID booster this fall?
Up to 90,000 U.S. COVID deaths could be prevented through the fall and winter, but that is less likely ifuptake continues at the current slow pace, the Commonwealth Fund study released Wednesday predicted. Death rates could peak at more than 1,000 per day during the winter if nothing changes.
“When you look at the data of the deaths and severe disease among unvaccinated versus vaccinated and boosted, versus vaccinated and doubly boosted, the data are crystal clear of the difference in severity and death among people who are not vaccinated,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute ofFauci was speaking at a webinar hosted by the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism on Tuesday.
“In this rich country of ours, we have 68% of the population is vaccinated and only one half of those have received one booster,” Fauci said. “We rank very poorly in our acceptance of. Somehow we've got to get down to the root cause of that, and I know it's going to be very complicated because a lot of it is because of political divisiveness.”
About 7.6 million Americans have received an updated booster dose so far, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and . The updated shots, made by both Moderna and Pfizer, were authorized in late August by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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