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2 thoughts on “Few Americans get new COVID booster shot ahead of projected winter surge

  1. “…doesn’t understand why he needs the third and fourth “booster” shots urged by federal health officials…”
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    So he got *a* flu shot as a child and believes that will serve him for life?

  2. Maybe the reason people aren’t getting the new Covid 19 varient shot could be because the CDC has not recommended it for anyone but those who are very, very seriously immunodeficient, and places like Kroger, CVS, and Walgreen have only enough supplies of the new vaccine for those immunodeficient people. I’m stage 3 chronic kidney disease and I can no longer take antibiotics to quell invections, and I can’t even get it.

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