Dr. Elizabeth Cohen on Lagging Booster Rates: ‘People Just Aren’t Really Hearing This’

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COHEN: "So let's take a look at what -- what's going on with Covid right now. If you take a look at a map of the United States now, when we have this map up, you guys remember, you know, earlier this year, last year 2020, this map was mostly red. Now it is just a relatively small number of counties are seeing that red, that high level of Covid numbers, but still, there are some pretty big population centers. So one in 10 people in the U.S. live in a place with high Covid numbers. Despite that, the booster is not going so well. When you take a look at uptake numbers, when you look at 65 and over it's only 35 percent. That's tiny compared to elders who got the original vaccine. And as you can see, the numbers just go down, down, down as you get younger. So people just aren't really hearing this. Now, I will say that when I talk to doctors, they do emphasize that it really is the elderly and the immune compromised to need to worry the most about this. They're really urging that group to go out there and get a booster."