75.5%. fully vaccinated, 63.3%. vaccinated with booster, 39.7%. so, of course, you used to run the cdc. do you think the cdc should update its definition of fully vaccinated to those who have gotten three shots? fully vaccinated? the most important thing here, arthel, is if you haven t gotten your first shot, if you re one of the 1 out of 5 americans or so over the age of 5 who hasn t done that, 60 million people, you know, 80% of people have already gotten their first shot. start your series now. because the concept we re going to have to use is up-to-date with vaccination. we don t know what will happen next with covid. we do know we ll be learning more. maybe you need a booster, another booster, maybe you don t. maybe we ll have a tweaked vaccine, maybe not. what we do know is the vaccines we have are remarkably effective at preventing hospitalization and death. the overwhelming majority of people who are very sick or dying are people who haven t been vaccinated.
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