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Hardly Anyone Is Buying Biden’s Bivalent Boosters

The administration has oversold vaccines for two years, and Covid is less lethal now anyway.

Dec. 4, 2022 1:43 pm ET

Marketing 101: Don’t puff up your product. When it doesn’t live up to the hype, the public won’t trust what you’re selling the next time around. That’s the problem the Biden administration faces as it tries to peddle “bivalent” booster shots for Covid-19.

Vaccines have served a useful purpose by reducing severe illness among the vulnerable and seniors. But many Americans who rolled up their sleeves for the original two-doses and even third ones were led to believe the vaccines would prevent them from getting sick. Many nevertheless fell ill. Some were knocked out for days with flulike symptoms—exactly what they were trying to avoid by getting vaccinated and boosted. Can you blame them for not buying the administration’s pitch that the new and supposedly improved bivalent boosters will “protect” them and their families?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hardly-anyone-is-buying-bidens-bivalent-boosters-vaccines-public-health-trust-dr-fauci-covid-shot-elderly-seniors-11670175190

 

Around 85% of recent Covid deaths were among people over 65. Why have so few gotten boosted?

Experts maintain that the new bivalent booster shot offers important protection. But less than a third of the most vulnerable age group has gotten it.

Dec. 2, 2022, 1:30 AM HST

By Aria Bendix

Around 85% of Covid deaths in the last four weeks were among people ages 65 and up, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But just 31% of that group has gotten updated booster shots.

That's the highest rate of any age group, but it pales in comparison to the 94% of the same population who got the primary series. Disease experts say the initial shots are no longer enough, given new variants and waning vaccine protection. Six in 10 adults who died of Covid in August had gotten at least the first two vaccine doses, according to a report published Wednesday by KFF, a nonprofit health think tank.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-deaths-high-booster-shots-low-over-age-65-rcna59437

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December 3, 202210:54 AM HSTLast Updated 2 days ago

Biden administration considers proposal to end military COVID vaccine mandate

By David Morgan

and Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is mulling a proposal from Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to repeal the U.S. military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the White House said on Saturday.

McCarthy, who is vying to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, earlier told Fox News he had won bipartisan agreement to lift the mandate at a White House meeting with Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

McCarthy said it would be repealed as part of the must-pass $817 billion National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, an annual bill setting policy for the Pentagon that is expected to pass the Senate and House of Representatives this month.

But the White House said Biden had agreed only to consider the idea.

"Leader McCarthy raised this with the president and the president told him he would consider it," said White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton. "The secretary of defense has recommended retaining the mandate, and the president supports his position. Discussions about the NDAA are ongoing."

The mandate, which was imposed in August 2021, requires all U.S. service members to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

"You know what I was able to achieve in that meeting? To be able (to) – we're going to see in the NDAA – lift the vaccination mandate on our military men and women," McCarthy, the top House Republican, said in the interview, which aired late on Friday.

"I know I'm going to get that," McCarthy said. "We're working it out right now. I believe we're ... going to get that."

There was no immediate comment from the other three congressional leaders at the meeting.

The Pentagon's vaccine mandate has been the object of intense opposition from Republican conservatives, including several House lawmakers who are threatening to block McCarthy from becoming speaker when Republicans take control of the chamber on Jan. 3.

According to Defense Department data, 3,717 Marines, 1,816 soldiers and 2,064 sailors have been discharged for refusing to get vaccinated. But federal courts this year have blocked military services from punishing personnel who have refused the vaccines on religious grounds.

McCarthy presented the vaccine mandate deal as a sign of how he would lead the House as speaker. He also rebutted conservative criticism over his attendance at a White House state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron.

"That's the things that we're going to have with the new Republican majority," McCarthy told Fox News.

"If somebody wants to argue about whether I'll represent this country right and respect the very first ally that helped us create this nation, I don't think they have their hearts in the right place."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-mulls-ending-us-military-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-2022-12-03/

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