- Fewer than one in three Americans have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster
- A patient safety nonprofit says a recurring booster schedule would improve vaccination.
- Some expert disagree with additional boosters, citing a lack of data.
Fewer than one in three Americans have received an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and one patient safety group thinks that’s a public health challenge.
The nonprofit ECRI said in a position paper that adopting a booster shot schedule targeting emerging variants would create certainty and convince more Americans to get boosted and help reduce COVID-19 spread in communities.
