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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Country is full of idiots. But you knew that. [/quote]

You mean the 14%? I agree.[/quote]

Well to be fair since OP started this thread, the numbers have gone up and it’s 16%. It will probably level off somewhere around 25%.

I personally know a bunch of people who were either on the fence about getting it or intending to get it but put it off and and now that we know a bunch more people getting Covid They are planning to get it. Feel like numbers will go up a little little bit more, but will still be lower than the annual flu rate.[/quote]
The 14% and 16% are likely overstated. These figures stem from a self-reported NIS telephone survey and do not derive from actual data. Surveys are subject to bias. In this case, respondents will likely feel social pressure to respond in the affirmative and people that did not take the new booster may not complete the survey.

Here’s an example of the biases inherent in self-reported surveys. The Covid States Project was a collaborative effort amongst leading universities. https://www.covidstates.org/reports/state-of-the-covid-19-pandemic  Its survey reported that  21% of adults had received the bivalent booster by early November 2022 (page 16). Yet, when you look at CDC data for the same time period, adult uptake of the bivalent booster was actually 12%. https://web.archive.org/web/20221116000720/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5 Self-reported surveys are subject to bias, particularly when there is social pressure to respond in the affirmative. [/quote]

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