Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If only 14% of Americans got the booster shot, it means that 86% of Americans became anti-vexers. Interesting trend.

An excellent example of black and white thinking.

It's an excellent example of the manipulative games played by the rwnjs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shirley there is other data than just the CDC phone survey? I mean most people are getting shots at Walgreens, CVS, etc. I’m sure they have some data.

There should be data on actual covid vaccinations as you describe, but none is being cited in the news. The CDC cites the NIS phone survey for vaccination shares and the press reports it. Of note, the CDC acknowledges that the NIS phone survey may inflate the reported share of people taking the new covid vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/vaccine-equity.html
"The main source of this data changed from previous years. During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CDC tracked nearly all COVID-19 vaccines administered. The end of the PHE, however, limited the completeness of COVID-19 vaccine administration data CDC receives. Instead, CDC now primarily tracks who has gotten updated COVID-19 vaccines using a large national survey called the National Immunization Survey (NIS), which is a family of surveys that the agency uses to track uptake of other vaccines, like childhood, adolescent and flu vaccines. These estimates are based on survey responses rather than vaccine records, or administrations. The NIS may overestimate the proportion of people vaccinated. For example, COVID-19 NIS data last year was consistently a few percentage points higher than the vaccine administration data CDC received directly from the states. Although we can’t directly compare this year’s survey data to last year’s number of vaccines given, NIS data allows for comparisons across groups and with NIS survey data from the previous year."

[Anonymous]

Anectodally speaking the only people I know getting COVID right now are those that have gotten their 4th, 5th and n boosters. My cousin just got her booster last week and has COVID this week. Quite an effective vaccine.

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There's a reason why a Vaccine Injury Fund exists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only 14% of Americans got the booster shot, it means that 86% of Americans became anti-vexers. Interesting trend.

An excellent example of black and white thinking.

It's an excellent example of the manipulative games played by the rwnjs.

RWNJs can spell anti-vaxxer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason why a Vaccine Injury Fund exists.

The COVID injury fund is called welfare and disability..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason why a Vaccine Injury Fund exists.

Me too! It’s only vaccinated getting it that I know. The “covid came from a bat” cdc not looking too bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anectodally speaking the only people I know getting COVID right now are those that have gotten their 4th, 5th and n boosters. My cousin just got her booster last week and has COVID this week. Quite an effective vaccine.

Annecdoally speaking the people I know that got COVID are college students, teachers, concert goers, people who flew in planes, doctors, nurses, store workers, Uber drivers, teens who got to parties, wedding goers, ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only 14% of Americans got the booster shot, it means that 86% of Americans became anti-vexers. Interesting trend.

I’m in that 86%, but hardly an anti-vaxer. Just got my flu shot and am 100% up-to-date on other vaccinations. The Pfizer Covid shot messed with my menstrual cycle in a big way and I don’t want to risk revisiting that mess. I might get the Novavax shot but it doesn’t seem to be widely available and I guess I’m just not in a huge hurry to hunt it down since I’ve had Covid and it wasn’t too bad.

Exactly the same. I'm not an anti vaxxer... Get a flu shot every year, my kids take all their shots, etc. I got Novavax last year and probably will get it again at some point, but not in a rush. And I have a biology degree, and mRNA vaccines are f-ing weird. We need to be able to talk openly about all the strange side effects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anectodally speaking the only people I know getting COVID right now are those that have gotten their 4th, 5th and n boosters. My cousin just got her booster last week and has COVID this week. Quite an effective vaccine.

Annecdoally speaking the people I know that got COVID are college students, teachers, concert goers, people who flew in planes, doctors, nurses, store workers, Uber drivers, teens who got to parties, wedding goers, ...

Yep. Anyone I know who has resumesd.a full social life has gotten Covid recently. The vaccinated people have had milder versions than the unvaccinated. One unvaxxed friend died of a heart attack after Covid , another developed a new autoimmune disease.

All are fooling around and finding out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only 14% of Americans got the booster shot, it means that 86% of Americans became anti-vexers. Interesting trend.

I’m in that 86%, but hardly an anti-vaxer. Just got my flu shot and am 100% up-to-date on other vaccinations. The Pfizer Covid shot messed with my menstrual cycle in a big way and I don’t want to risk revisiting that mess. I might get the Novavax shot but it doesn’t seem to be widely available and I guess I’m just not in a huge hurry to hunt it down since I’ve had Covid and it wasn’t too bad.

Exactly the same. I'm not an anti vaxxer... Get a flu shot every year, my kids take all their shots, etc. I got Novavax last year and probably will get it again at some point, but not in a rush. And I have a biology degree, and mRNA vaccines are f-ing weird. We need to be able to talk openly about all the strange side effects.

If you don't get every vaccine that is available without question, then you are, by definition, an anti-vaxxer.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only 14% of Americans got the booster shot, it means that 86% of Americans became anti-vexers. Interesting trend.

I’m in that 86%, but hardly an anti-vaxer. Just got my flu shot and am 100% up-to-date on other vaccinations. The Pfizer Covid shot messed with my menstrual cycle in a big way and I don’t want to risk revisiting that mess. I might get the Novavax shot but it doesn’t seem to be widely available and I guess I’m just not in a huge hurry to hunt it down since I’ve had Covid and it wasn’t too bad.

Exactly the same. I'm not an anti vaxxer... Get a flu shot every year, my kids take all their shots, etc. I got Novavax last year and probably will get it again at some point, but not in a rush. And I have a biology degree, and mRNA vaccines are f-ing weird. We need to be able to talk openly about all the strange side effects.

If you don't get every vaccine that is available without question, then you are, by definition, an anti-vaxxer.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both

I don't oppose the use in general of the covid vaccines. I just don't plan to get the new one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shirley there is other data than just the CDC phone survey? I mean most people are getting shots at Walgreens, CVS, etc. I’m sure they have some data.

There should be data on actual covid vaccinations as you describe, but none is being cited in the news. The CDC cites the NIS phone survey for vaccination shares and the press reports it. Of note, the CDC acknowledges that the NIS phone survey may inflate the reported share of people taking the new covid vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/vaccine-equity.html
"The main source of this data changed from previous years. During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CDC tracked nearly all COVID-19 vaccines administered. The end of the PHE, however, limited the completeness of COVID-19 vaccine administration data CDC receives. Instead, CDC now primarily tracks who has gotten updated COVID-19 vaccines using a large national survey called the National Immunization Survey (NIS), which is a family of surveys that the agency uses to track uptake of other vaccines, like childhood, adolescent and flu vaccines. These estimates are based on survey responses rather than vaccine records, or administrations. The NIS may overestimate the proportion of people vaccinated. For example, COVID-19 NIS data last year was consistently a few percentage points higher than the vaccine administration data CDC received directly from the states. Although we can’t directly compare this year’s survey data to last year’s number of vaccines given, NIS data allows for comparisons across groups and with NIS survey data from the previous year."

PP again. To see how much the NIS phone survey may be overstating the uptake of the latest covid vaccine, it is interesting to look at historical data. In November and December 2022, the NIS survey estimated that the adult uptake of the bivalent booster was six to seven percentage points higher than what actually occurred. This type of overstatement is not surprising as self-reported surveys are subject to bias and there was social pressure to report vaccination. If the late 2022 difference between NIS and actual is continuing, then instead of the NIS survey's estimate that 14% of adults had taken the latest covid vaccine, it may actually have been only 7% or 8% percent of adults. That is not a trivial difference and shows the risk of using phone surveys to proxy actual vaccination data.

Nov 2022: NIS survey 21% bivalent uptake for adults, Actual CDC data 15%; Dec 2022: NIS survey 25% bivalent uptake for adults, Actual CDC data 18%
NIS Survey Data Nov-Dec 2022, Table 2 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7207a5-H.pdf
End Nov 2022 actual vax data https://web.archive.org/web/20221205002436/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5
End Dec 2022 actual vax data https://web.archive.org/web/20230109000217/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re getting covid too frequently to get vaxxed.

Well, that’s pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone actually dying from covid anymore?

My parent recently died of covid, but they had multiple boosters, including one recently.

I’m sorry for your loss. Do you mind sharing how old they were?

They were older, and had covid a few times so it was surprising covid did them in. I'm not doing any more boosters. They aren't stopping transmission.

Yes, it is always shocking when old people die. You're supposed to live forever as long as you don't do anything wrong.

Oh, you’re a jackass. Got it.