COVID cases in the United States have surpassed 72 million cases. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 72,171,208 cases resulting in 871,937 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.2%.
While Omicron cases are falling in some parts of the country and hospitalization rates have fallen below 150,000, the number of Americans getting booster shots has declined even more sharply. In early December, more than a million Americans were getting boosted every day. As of last week, that number has fallen below 500,000. Yet 86 million fully vaccinated Americans eligible for a booster have not yet received one. Unfortunately, it would seem that some even the among the fully vaccinated have now decided to "do their own research" and now refuse to take the booster.
Perhaps a significant segment of fully vaccinated Americans has concluded that getting boosted will not stop one from contracting COVID, particularly the Omicron variant. Yet the evidence also suggests that unvaccinated people are more five times more likely to contract Omicron that the fully vaccinated. Studies have also shown that boosters are 94% effective in keeping people out of the hospital with the Delta variant and 90% effective in keeping people out of the hospital with Omicron.
Nevertheless there is a disconnect which has now spread to those who are fully vaccinated.
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