The latest versions of the annual COVID vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The New York Times reported on August 22.
Thus, US residents aged 6 months and older have the opportunity to receive up-to-date COVID-19 vaccines.
The newspaper regrets that the availability of booster shots has not led to the vaccination of American citizens. Thus, only about 20% of American adults injected themselves with the previous version of the vaccine. And even among American residents over 75 years of age, only 40% wanted to be vaccinated again with the previous version of the vaccine.
Let’s note that the best anti-vaccine publicity was made by Dr. Fauci, who not long ago announced that he had contracted COVID for the third time and at the same time was vaccinated against this disease 6 times.
The newspaper notes that the demand for the new vaccine is still unclear, but will probably be small. Therefore, even older people doubt the need for additional doses of these vaccines. In addition, for those without insurance, vaccination is also paid for and the government is trying to find money for the vaccines, but it is unknown whether it will find it.
Lack of vaccine demand has led to a sharp drop in revenue for both Pfizer and Moderna. Earlier this year, Moderna reported a $1.2 billion loss due to sharp declines in COVID-19 vaccine sales.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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