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Dr. Fauci Tells “Conversations on Health Care”
On Location at Aspen Ideas: We Need More COVID Booster Shots
Dr. Fauci Tells “Conversations on Health Care” On Location at Aspen Ideas: Health We Need More COVID Booster Shots .
Dr. Anthony Fauci shared a sobering message with “Conversations on Health Care”: In the past year about 20% of Americans have received the COVID booster vaccine; “that’s not good if you really want to get a degree of immunity that you can lift up,” he says. Fauci explains that getting to 50% should be the goal. “What we’re hoping is that people who come in with the uptake of a flu vaccine would also come in…at the same time, the same day…[get the] COVID [one]. The new vaccine is not going to be a bivalent, it’s going to be a monovalent Omicron derivative.” The fall 2023 COVID vaccine is currently awaiting FDA approval.
