Uptake of 2024-25 Covid Booster

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I need to find a date when I can be flat out on my back for the next 2 days, as always happens with me and Covid shots.

I have gotten a pretty high fever with all of the previous shots, but not this one.

[Anonymous]

VA updated its figures for 10/22. 8% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake is concentrated in the elderly, with less than 3% of children having received the new booster. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/22/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 7.7%
0-4 years 2.4%
5-11 years 2.7%
12-17 years 2.9%
18-30 years 2.7%
31-49 years 4.9%
50-64 years 8.5%
65+ years 22.4%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI the Novavax has zero side effects.

True for me. I’ve had three Novavax vaccines over the years and never had any side effects afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VA updated its figures for 10/22. 8% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake is concentrated in the elderly, with less than 3% of children having received the new booster. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/22/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 7.7%
0-4 years 2.4%
5-11 years 2.7%
12-17 years 2.9%
18-30 years 2.7%
31-49 years 4.9%
50-64 years 8.5%
65+ years 22.4%

As it should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VA updated its figures for 10/22. 8% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake is concentrated in the elderly, with less than 3% of children having received the new booster. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/22/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 7.7%
0-4 years 2.4%
5-11 years 2.7%
12-17 years 2.9%
18-30 years 2.7%
31-49 years 4.9%
50-64 years 8.5%
65+ years 22.4%

As it should be.

Yes, agreed. That is the population that is most at risk from covid. Yet, even for that subgroup, booster uptake has been low. On a national basis, 16% of nursing home patients have taken the latest booster as of mid-October, 5% of nursing home staff. So even amongst the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, the majority are not receiving the booster and yet YTD 2024 covid deaths are still running under those for the same YTD 2023 period.
https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/ltc-vaccination-dashboard.html
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

[Anonymous]

The CDC is picking up where it left off last year and releasing inflated estimates of covid booster uptake based on its unverified, self-reported NIS-ACM phone survey. As of October 12, the CDC claims that 12% of US adults have taken the booster. That is higher than what states are reporting based on actual vaccination data. https://www.cdc.gov/covidvaxview/weekly-dashboard/adult-vaccination-coverage.html

In addition to its national estimate, the CDC's unverified phone survey also provides state uptake estimates which allows for a direct comparison with actual state data. These comparisons show the CDC is overstating Virginia booster uptake by 7 percentage points. Other states are similarly overstated.
Virginia Adult Uptake: CDC estimate 14.3% (Oct12) vs VA actual data 7.3% (Oct15) -- CDC Overstatement 7.0%

Despite the availability of actual state data and commercial projections based on pharmacy/provider vaccination data, the CDC continues to publicize its unverified phone survey estimates, making no mention that these estimates are not based on actual data. Unfortunately, the press reports the CDC unverified phone survey responses by rote, without ever questioning why the CDC estimates so grossly overstate actual state vaccine uptake data.

[Anonymous]

As of 10/29, 9% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake continues to be concentrated in the elderly, with roughly 3% of children having received the new booster. The pace of uptake for both covid and flu vaccines slowed somewhat into the end of October. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/29/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 8.6%
0-4 years 2.8%
5-11 years 3.2%
12-17 years 3.3%
18-30 years 3.1%
31-49 years 5.6%
50-64 years 9.6%
65+ years 24.8%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As of 10/29, 9% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake continues to be concentrated in the elderly, with roughly 3% of children having received the new booster. The pace of uptake for both covid and flu vaccines slowed somewhat into the end of October. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/29/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 8.6%
0-4 years 2.8%
5-11 years 3.2%
12-17 years 3.3%
18-30 years 3.1%
31-49 years 5.6%
50-64 years 9.6%
65+ years 24.8%

those numbers really are stunningly low!

[Anonymous]

Only on DCUM would there be a thread of people foaming at the mouth for a Covid vaccine, and hoping and praying the uptake numbers go up. I bet you’re all still masking too. When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

Good god, move on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As of 10/29, 9% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake continues to be concentrated in the elderly, with roughly 3% of children having received the new booster. The pace of uptake for both covid and flu vaccines slowed somewhat into the end of October. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/29/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 8.6%
0-4 years 2.8%
5-11 years 3.2%
12-17 years 3.3%
18-30 years 3.1%
31-49 years 5.6%
50-64 years 9.6%
65+ years 24.8%

those numbers really are stunningly low!

You’re shocked??? lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would there be a thread of people foaming at the mouth for a Covid vaccine, and hoping and praying the uptake numbers go up. I bet you’re all still masking too. When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

Good god, move on!

Says the person obsessively monitoring any covid-related thread so you can jump on and offer nothing more than this basic neg?

When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would there be a thread of people foaming at the mouth for a Covid vaccine, and hoping and praying the uptake numbers go up. I bet you’re all still masking too. When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

Good god, move on!

Says the person obsessively monitoring any covid-related thread so you can jump on and offer nothing more than this basic neg?

When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

When you stop posting this crap. So, essentially never. We can go on forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As of 10/29, 9% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake continues to be concentrated in the elderly, with roughly 3% of children having received the new booster. The pace of uptake for both covid and flu vaccines slowed somewhat into the end of October. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/29/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 8.6%
0-4 years 2.8%
5-11 years 3.2%
12-17 years 3.3%
18-30 years 3.1%
31-49 years 5.6%
50-64 years 9.6%
65+ years 24.8%

those numbers really are stunningly low!

They appear low for several reasons:
1) The CDC puts out inflated vaccine uptake estimates based on a flawed phone survey, which makes people think more people are taking the booster than actually are. The 22% or 23% oft-cited uptake figure for last year was a CDC-created mirage. Based on actual state data, the true uptake share last year was around 16%. The data shown here is actual data, not inflated CDC creations.
2) Covid hospitalizations and deaths are concentrated in the elderly which makes younger people less interested in covid vaccines.
3) There has been limited uptake of children's covid vaccines, even for children who receive flu vaccines. For ages 6mo-4 years, 6 times as many VA children receive the flu vaccine as the covid vaccine (16.4% flu, 2.8% covid uptake). For adults, this falls to 2x the number of flu vaccines than covid vaccines. The scant uptake of covid boosters in children likely reflects that the fact that there is almost no chance of severe covid outcomes for healthy children which is why nearly all other nations do not recommend covid boosters for children.
4) Covid vaccines for children 6mo-11 years are not FDA approved but are being administered under emergency use authorization. Parents may be more comfortable giving children an FDA approved flu vaccine than a covid vaccine which does not have FDA approval.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would there be a thread of people foaming at the mouth for a Covid vaccine, and hoping and praying the uptake numbers go up. I bet you’re all still masking too. When does it stop? Are you going to do this for the rest of your life?

Good god, move on!

I don’t think that was OP’s purpose in updating this thread. I think it’s actually the opposite. In any event I think it’s interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As of 10/29, 9% of Virginians have taken the 2024-25 covid booster. Uptake continues to be concentrated in the elderly, with roughly 3% of children having received the new booster. The pace of uptake for both covid and flu vaccines slowed somewhat into the end of October. https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/respiratory-diseases-in-virginia/data/vaccines/

Virginia, % of age group to receive 2024-25 covid booster (as of 10/29/24)
All ages (6 mo+): 8.6%
0-4 years 2.8%
5-11 years 3.2%
12-17 years 3.3%
18-30 years 3.1%
31-49 years 5.6%
50-64 years 9.6%
65+ years 24.8%

those numbers really are stunningly low!

They appear low for several reasons:
1) The CDC puts out inflated vaccine uptake estimates based on a flawed phone survey, which makes people think more people are taking the booster than actually are. The 22% or 23% oft-cited uptake figure for last year was a CDC-created mirage. Based on actual state data, the true uptake share last year was around 16%. The data shown here is actual data, not inflated CDC creations.
2) Covid hospitalizations and deaths are concentrated in the elderly which makes younger people less interested in covid vaccines.
3) There has been limited uptake of children's covid vaccines, even for children who receive flu vaccines. For ages 6mo-4 years, 6 times as many VA children receive the flu vaccine as the covid vaccine (16.4% flu, 2.8% covid uptake). For adults, this falls to 2x the number of flu vaccines than covid vaccines. The scant uptake of covid boosters in children likely reflects that the fact that there is almost no chance of severe covid outcomes for healthy children which is why nearly all other nations do not recommend covid boosters for children.
4) Covid vaccines for children 6mo-11 years are not FDA approved but are being administered under emergency use authorization. Parents may be more comfortable giving children an FDA approved flu vaccine than a covid vaccine which does not have FDA approval.

yeah I get all that. I just think it’s a very strange and interesting scenario where the CDC’s official line is to still get the vaccine even for the kids for whom it has the worst risk-benefit profile … while failing to communicate that the pediatric vax would be most beneficial for infants (who are in fact higher risk). and of course thinking back on the extreme rush to get vaccines, the way you used to have to prove vaccination to get into bars! And I had a coworker almost fired for not wanting to get vaxxed!