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As if we needed more proof that COVID destroyed the public health profession, the public response to this year's booster doses is as good as you're going to get.

Last year, the CDC, FDA, Dr. Fauci and other health "experts" spent months excoriating the public to get an updated, bivalent booster. They were adamant that those boosters, despite little testing and overhyped results, were necessary to prevent a significant winter surge and increased transmission. Talk about an illusion of control.

Almost no one listened.

Despite immediately authorizing the boosters for virtually all ages, with little justification, just 17% of the population got their latest COVID shot. Whether through skepticism of the "experts," immunity from prior infection, or the realization that the vaccines are ineffective at preventing infection, the public overwhelmingly ignored public health advice.

In response to newer variants that made the bivalent booster functionally useless, yet again, there's a new COVID vaccine this year. Which, in classic public health fashion, was targeted to a variant that's already disappeared.

Now, more than a month after they were authorized based on testing on eight mice, we have an update on what percentage have gotten the new doses, after relentless excoriation from the CDC.

And it's low. Really low.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, roughly 7 million Americans have received the latest COVID booster dose.

The population of the United States is estimated to be roughly 336 million, meaning that just 2% of the country's gotten the new vaccine. 2%. It's hard to imagine a more direct repudiation of the "experts" than that.

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Bubblez said:

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I received mine about a week after it was available at a CVS/Walgreens.

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Not a Bot said:

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Most people no longer know anyone who is getting very sick with covid. A lot of people take the flu shot every year because they always know people who get bad cases of the flu. Aren't seeing that as much with these strains of covid.

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Not a Bot said:

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The people with weakened immune systems are still pretty vulnerable to significant covid infection in some cases, but even in those cases deep lung involvement is pretty rare. I work with people who are on immune blockers or being treated for cancer so they take them to get some antibodies produced in their system.

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Bubblez said:

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I received mine about a week after it was available at a CVS/Walgreens.

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Bubblez said:

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I received mine about a week after it was available at a CVS/Walgreens.

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Rapier108 said:

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How dare people not "follow the experts" and "trust the science".

Don't they know they are "putting everyone at risk?"

There will be a "winter of death for the unvaccinated."

Hospitals will be "overwhelmed by the unvaccinated."

For those who inevitably will think I'm being serious, this is called sarcasm.

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GeorgiAg said:

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Why do I need a shot for a cold that is 1/10th the strength of the flu?

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e=mc2 said:

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Bubblez said:

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I received mine about a week after it was available at a CVS/Walgreens.

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Of course you did. You'll do whatever your overlords demand without question. And I feel bad for you.

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