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.

  • @halferect
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    171 year ago

    I think it’s the fact it’s hard to find, at least in my state it was difficult, every place either was fully booked or had none. I had planned originally to go to my community center for a Vax day and then it was canceled because they had none

    • @marx2k
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      61 year ago

      I got mine at Costco. Flu shot in one arm, covid in the other

    • @blattrules
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      31 year ago

      CVS has been pretty reliably on top of both of the updated vaccine rollouts and has them in stock. I got it with the flu shot a month ago now and had no trouble finding it.

      • @halferect
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        31 year ago

        Yeah I think now it’s no problem but the roll out was terrible, I bet the numbers go up now that it’s widely available

    • @Anamnesis
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      31 year ago

      My Safeway still doesn’t have it.