A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronaviruses COVID 19 booster vaccine targeting BA is used in a vial. 5 Omicron sub variants are pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, USA, Sept 8, 2022. HANNAH BEIER REUTERS NEW YORK MOSCOW MAPUTO About two-thirds of adults in the United States do not plan to get updated COVID 19 booster shots soon, according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family FoundationKaiser Family Foundation, a health policy nonprofit organization.
Only a third of adults polled said they already received the shots, or plan to get the booster as soon as possible, according to the poll.
Around 18% said they would wait and see if they would get the booster shot, while 10% said they would only get it if it was required. Around 12% of adults surveyed said they would not get the shot, while 27% said they were not eligible because they were not fully vaccinated.
The Kaiser survey found that half of the adults surveyed said they had heard a lot or some about the boosters, and that the awareness of the new vaccines is low.
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Around 40% of fully vaccinated adults said they were not sure whether the new COVID- 19 boosters are recommended for them. The vaccine is recommended by the CDC for all fully vaccinated people aged 12 and older.
Mozambique's health minister Armindo Tiago said on Friday that 765,000 teenagers across the country have received their first dose of the vaccine against COVID 19 in the vaccination campaign that started on Tuesday.
The minister said that the goal is to vaccinate 4,801, 544 teenagers aged between 12 and 17 years old, and that the first round will last two weeks.
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Russia has registered 37,286 new COVID 19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its national tally to 20,985, 756, the official monitoring and response center said Friday.
The death toll increased by 106 to 387,269, while the number of recoveries grew by 61,225 to 20,040, 988, the center said.