Fauci Is WELL Pi__ed Off With 12% Booster Uptake

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Only 12% of people in the US over the age of five have been booster shot. It is that politics that's causing that problem or what? It's a complex situation. First of all, it's unacceptable and maybe unconscionable that we have a life saving vaccine that's readily available and we have such a poor uptake of the vaccine. I think it's a number of factors. One, I think, is the dominant one. Of course, even people who got the original vaccine to begin with are slow to get the boost. I think it has to do with COVID fatigue. I think people want so badly to put this behind us that they don't want to hear anymore about COVID. I've got vaccinated. I've got boosted. I don't want to be bothered. It's a mistake because these updated vaccines do a really good job in being matched to what we're seeing outside in the environment and even with the new variants, they're going to be enough cross-reactivity. Some of it has to do with ideological differences. You know that if you look at the vaccine uptake in red states versus blue states, it's very, very different with much less vaccine uptake in red states. Then there's the anti-science, anti-vax feeling. All of those things can flate together to account for the low uptake of the booster.