{"id":1197276,"date":"2023-10-27T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197276"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:47:22","slug":"fall-covid-shot-uptake-is-an-abysmal-7-wastewater-testing-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197276","title":{"rendered":"Fall COVID shot uptake is an \u201cabysmal\u201d 7%; wastewater testing impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1743149206-800x600-1.jpe\" alt=\"Fall COVID shot uptake is an &#x201C;abysmal&#x201D; 7%; wastewater testing impaired\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-1743149206-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1920\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/stay-up-to-date-on-your-covid-booster-sign-at-rite-aid-news-photo\/1743149206?adppopup=true\">Getty | Lindsey Nicholson<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More than a month since US health officials recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans, only 7.1 percent of US adults have rolled up their sleeves for the shot and just 2.1 percent of children have been immunized.<\/p>\n<p>The uptake is sluggish at best, and the current rates were dubbed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-vaccines-cdc-a478c45025a2d403b022bd05c07dd85e\">abysmal<\/a>&#8221; Thursday by one immunization adviser for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC&#8217;s advisory panel got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/acip\/meetings\/downloads\/slides-2023-10-25-26\/02-COVID-Stokley-508.pdf\">an update<\/a> yesterday on the fall campaign to boost protection against COVID-19 ahead of the winter respiratory illness season.<\/p>\n<p>The current uptake is far short of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2023\/09\/more-than-half-of-americans-plan-to-get-updated-covid-shot\/\">survey data from last month<\/a> that indicated more than half of American adults planned to get the shots. And survey data presented yesterday to the CDC advisory committee didn&#8217;t differ dramatically from that. In a National Immunization Survey-Adult COVID Module that ran from October 8 to 14 that polled 14,715 adults, 24.6 percent said they &#8220;definitely will&#8221; get vaccinated, and an additional 30.6 percent said they &#8220;probably will.&#8221; That&#8217;s on top of the 7.1 percent who reported they were already vaccinated. The remaining 37 percent said they will definitely or probably <em>not<\/em> get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979385#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979385&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1979385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall COVID shot uptake is an \u201cabysmal\u201d 7%; wastewater testing impaired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty | Lindsey Nicholson) More than a month since US health officials recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans, only 7.1 percent of US adults have rolled up their sleeves for the shot and just 2.1 percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1197276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}