But she instead stressed that the system for distributing vaccines in the United States needs to be updated so that we are prepared for yearly boosters.
“We need to plan and prepare our health care infrastructure and the public to engage in mass vaccination every year,” McGee said. “We need to learn how we can do mass vaccination more efficiently and with greater participation so that, if this becomes an annual process, we can achieve our vaccination targets much more easily and faster.”
Dr. Paul Nee, an infectious disease specialist at Nuvance Health in Connecticut, agreed “there is a distinct possibility we may be looking at booster shots in the future.” But when asked if patients would balk at another injection, Nee said he didn’t think so.
“I think, in general, much of the public has been accepting of the vaccine,” he said. “We are already starting to see the benefits. Here in Connecticut we are starting to see a decline in new cases.”
As of Feb. 6, new cases of Covid-19 had dropped by nearly 20 percent compared to the previous week, NBC News reported Monday.
But the United States has reported 27.3 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and nearly 471,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest NBC News data. Both are world-leading figures.
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