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New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)

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Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot.

In the fall of 2022, by which time most people had either had the COVID virus or the vaccine, fewer than 50 million people got the shots.

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[-] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm kinda prepared for that life. I got a second booster about year ago. Along with my annual flu shot. I have no problem with getting two shots instead of one each year.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if I should start getting the flu shot too. I've never gotten the shot (it hasn't been that much of a thing here in Finland), but the last time I had the flu I had one of those swine flu variants that was going around at that time (like, uh, 15 years ago? 13?) and jesus fuck I was so sick I literally thought I was going to die, and I've sort of been antsy about "regular" flus after that too. Been a good while though, before the oink flu.

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