A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.
One expert called the rates “abysmal.”
The numbers, presented Thursday at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans, conducted two weeks ago.
The data also indicated that nearly 40% of adults said they probably or definitely will not get the shot. A similar percentage of parents said they did not plan to vaccinate their children.
The last update I had was that the CDC wasn’t recommending another booster for healthy adults in my age range because there were diminishing returns on its effectiveness. The news then got to be too much to keep up on, so until this article, I didn’t even know what the current information is or how many shots I might be ‘behind’ on after getting the first recommended booster. I’m happy to get updated, but the information delivery has been extremely poor.