The updated bivalent COVID-19 booster shots are available at more than 1,500 sites in Los Angeles County. Here's how to get one.
Vaccination providers need to make sure they’re administering the right vaccination to the right person, panel of health expert cautions.suggesting that 72% of respondents said they were likely to receive an updated booster. Still, some health officials wonder whether COVID-weary residents will feel a sense of urgency to get yet another shot.
“Another thing that we are trying to combat is COVID fatigue — so many people who are just tired of thinking about COVID want to move on. They’re tired of considering whether they need to get more shots. Perhaps they’re confused as to whether they should. Maybe they got some shots to begin with, the two doses, maybe a booster, but they don’t want to keep going because they seem to think that there’s just no end to all this vaccination,” Dr.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that, looking forward with the COVID-19 pandemic, in the absence of a, we likely are moving toward a path with a vaccination cadence similar to that of the annual influenza vaccine, with annual, updated COVID-19 shots matched to the currently circulating strains for most of the population,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, said last week.
The new booster offers “a chance to make a real dent in the legions of vaccinated folks, particularly older people, experiencing breakthrough infection,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious disease expert, wrote in an op-edUnvaccinated people still make up the majority of patients who’ve died from COVID-19, but even vaccinated people can die from the disease, especially if they’re at higher risk and haven’t received any booster shots.
“Vaccinated patients who die have disproportionately been those 75 and older who have not received a booster,” he wrote. “When talking to families of vaccinated individuals who died, I’ve often learned that the patient rushed to get their first two shots after the vaccine was authorized in December 2020 but had not received a booster.”
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