A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot.

One expert called the rates “abysmal.”

The numbers, presented Thursday at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans, conducted two weeks ago.

The data also indicated that nearly 40% of adults said they probably or definitely will not get the shot. A similar percentage of parents said they did not plan to vaccinate their children.

  • @[email protected]
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    68 months ago

    Is there a newer version than the bivalent one? Are those strains the ones currently circulating?

    • @mcc
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      108 months ago

      You didn’t know? Covid vaccine is now an annual vaccine, the new one is 2023/2024.

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        Communication has been absolutely awful. I learned about it through Lemmy. My wife had no idea there is a new one. This is not ideal.

          • kase
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            18 months ago

            for what it’s worth, I had both at the same time a couple weeks ago. same shoulder. nothing weird happened, shoulder just felt a bit sore lol