With virus shot number’s levelling off?
Some medical experts are looking for something to help them push the other half of America to get vaccinated….
They think a harder sell from the Feds on the ‘safety’ and health ‘benefits’ of the vaccine to those who are reluctant to get the shots might work….
The efforts up now seem to have a hit a brick wall on the other almost half of Americans that have NOT elected to get inoculated…
Pressure is growing for the FDA to grant full approval to the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines — or to at least more clearly explain to the public its decision-making process — to help convince more Americans to get their shots.
Some medical experts have sounded off on social media in recent days, calling on regulators to endorse what they say the data already shows — that the two vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna made with messenger RNA technology safely and effectively prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death from the coronavirus.
“I don’t think there’s anything that can move the needle more in the U.S.,” said Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, about the unvaccinated who are eligible to get the shot…
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Full approval may alleviate some individuals’ concerns, but reasons for declining the vaccine thus far are numerous and vary based on cultural norms, perceptions of Covid risk and their level of mistrust in institutions, said Rachael Piltch-Loeb, associate research scientist at the NYU School of Global Public Health focusing on vaccine hesitancy.
“The reality is, we have to be having really localized, individual conversations with folks to hit on the specific reason they do not feel comfortable getting the vaccine at this point in time,” she said.
Continued misinformation and hesitancy around the vaccines as inoculation rates level off and the Delta variant becomes more dominant lends even greater urgency to the FDA giving its formal blessing to the shots, Topol said…..
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Uh we were told here day before yesterday that if Biden would just make a big deal out of Trumps vaccinations efforts, all these Republicans (about half the party) would readily roll up their sleeves.
In other words this vaccine “hesitancy” on the part of the virus spreaders?Totally Political.So what do they give a damn about all this scientific stuff?
It’s all about Trump!
Having merely pointed that out?I do favor the FDA moving ahead to rapidly approve the vaccinations.