The new omicron-specific boosters are here, with those as young as five now eligible for the updated shot. But the uptake, even in very vaccinated King County, has been less than ideal.
“We have well over 1.5 million or more people that are eligible for the booster, but really, we’re still down at about 15 percent of people actually having received it, and we’d like that, obviously, to be much higher than that,” says Dr. Mark Del Beccaro, assistant deputy chief for Covid testing and immunization programs at Public Health—Seattle and King County.
There are a few reasons why this may be: pandemic fatigue, shot availability, vaccine confusion, and
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