{"664948":{"#nid":"664948","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Survey Finds Americans Still Don\u2019t Know They\u2019re Eligible for Updated COVID-19 Booster Shot","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe updated COVID-19\u0026nbsp;booster shot that targets two omicron subvariants as well as the original coronavirus strain has been available to most Americans for more than\u0026nbsp;four months, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-people-booster-percent-pop5\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esays just\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;18% of adults have gotten it. Despite COVID\u0026nbsp;deaths in the U.S. once again being on the rise, the months-long\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-14\/slow-updated-booster-shot-uptake-deepens-worry-over-future-u-s-covid-19-surge\u0022\u003Ebooster campaign\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;appears to have an education problem, according to a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7203a5.htm?s_cid=mm7203a5_w\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published Thursday by the CDC.\u0026nbsp;The most common reason given for not getting the booster shot was a lack of knowledge about eligibility for it, followed by a lack of knowledge about vaccine availability, and a perceived belief that they were already protected against infection. Two\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/School of\u00a0Biological Sciences,\u0022\u003ESchool of\u0026nbsp;Biological Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003Eresearchers were\u0026nbsp;involved in the CDC\u0026#39;s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR):\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor, Tom and Marie Patton Chair,\u0026nbsp;Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, and\u0026nbsp;Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence at the Ecole Normale Superieure;\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/stephen-beckett\u0022\u003EStephen Beckett\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist. (The CDC report is also mentioned in this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2023-01-19\/l-a-county-drops-to-low-covid-community-level\u0022\u003Estory\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;the Los Angeles\u0026nbsp;Times.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-20 22:00:31","changed_gmt":"2023-01-20 22:00:31","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2023-01-19\/survey-finds-americans-still-dont-know-theyre-eligible-for-updated-covid-19-booster-shot","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"11599","name":"Joshua Weitz"},{"id":"181756","name":"Stephen Beckett"},{"id":"49701","name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"188693","name":"booster vaccines"},{"id":"191942","name":"Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report"},{"id":"191943","name":"MMWR"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}