Last week, Townhall reported how a new poll showed that Americans’ concerns over COVID-19 were upticking. This came after the Biden administration announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and will re-launch a website for Americans to order up to four free tests for their household.
In the poll findings, it claimed that “all party groups are more likely now than in May/June to say the coronavirus situation is getting worse, but Democrats have grown particularly negative about the trajectory.” A new survey published Wednesday claims that nearly half of all adults in the United States plan to get the “updated” COVID-19 vaccine.
The poll found that Democrats, as well as elderly people, were the most likely to say that they’d get the vaccine (via ABC News):
The latest poll conducted by the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor found that 23% of U.S. adults say they will "definitely" get the updated booster, 23% say they will "probably" get it, while 19% say they will "probably not" get it and 33% say they will "definitely not" get it.
The new shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which are formulated to target newer variants of COVID-19, are recommend for everyone 6 months and older, but the survey found that the majority of U.S. parents say they aren’t planning to get it for their children.
Consistent with prior trends as earlier vaccines were being rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the poll found that Democrats and people at least 65 years old are most likely to say they would "definitely" or "probably" get the updated booster.
The share of the American public who intend to get the new vaccine is higher than those who have received previous shots, but not as much as initial vaccine uptake back in 2020, according to the survey.
Dr. Sandra Fryhofer, an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, told ABC that “even children and adults with no underlying conditions can still experience severe illness due to COVID."
Dr. Pablo Sanchez, a professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, said that only “those who are at the highest risk…those [who are] greater than 65 years of age and younger individuals with risk factors” should get the shot.
"The healthy adolescent, the male 20-something year old who's already had COVID, may already have been vaccinated ... I'm not sure if that individual should get one or even needs one."
