the oldest population, people 65 plus, are the highest booster uptick, 44%. you can see it is pretty low across the board, despite significant availability of these boosters. i think the message is really clear. again, talking to so many of these people in the vaccine world and infectious disease doctors, epidemiologists, it is time to reconsider getting a vaccine if you haven t done so already. it is time to do that. it is now time for a booster if you re at least six months out from the mrna vaccines or two months out from the johnson & johnson vaccines. even if there is some erosion of the effectiveness of these vaccines against omicron, having the vaccine, having the booster is still going to give you the best protection of all. i ll add to that as well something that i don t think we still talk enough about, you know, masks. there s been a lot of back and forth on this, but i think we need to be prepared to be cautious as we re going into the winter season, even before omicron. do
variant is worse for us than delta. that variant by the way still ripping around america without the fanfare of the speculation going on with omicron. all the feverish concerns prompted a reply from the president of the united states. this variant is a cause for concern not a cause for panic. why? here is what he said. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines. the best scientists. we re learning more every single day. we ll fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed. not chaos and confusion. good. and just a note for the record. let s hope they keep that same energy. and that it will be aided by the president and his emissaries, letting us know what they know when they know it. don t continue this pattern of us having to catch there were things you knew that you could have told us and didn t. please let s do better. so far, little to panic on based on the facts. are there cases here? maybe. they don t know. there are cases nearby in
of a generation, and a big brother himself. miriam webster made vaccine the word of the year for 2021. the word saw a 601% increase the number of times it was looked up and the intersection between the political and medical is part of why it was chosen. in context, pandemic was the word last year and the folks at the oed, oxford english dictionary went with vax. what do you think? let us know on social media. we ll be right back with the handoff. a comprehensive wealth plan for your full financial picture. with the right balance of risk and reward. so you can enjoy more of.this. this is the planning effect.
wrong with his mandate. i think it was a monumental overreach. and i think it s actually hardened people against the vaccine. and the president has divided the country because of the mandate. now you have a couple of governors saying, oh, two shots isn t enough, now you have to have three. so today the centers for disease control and prevention strengthened their guidance on booster shots. they now say that everyone age 18 and older should receive a booster when they are six months after their initial pfizer or moderna series or two months after their initial j&j vaccine. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky added that the emergence of the omicron variant further emphasizes the vaccines and boosters. the latest data from the kaiser family foundation shows that the unvaccinated population is now disproportionately made up of those who identify as republican or republican leaning.
information. i think those are great examples of things that are obviously not true and that are kind of political propaganda that are lies, that are very old kinds of falsehoods. i think there s a big spectrum of stuff that is not that clear and that we like to apply this kind of simple framework of misinformation, too. like, through the trump years, progressives believed a lot of things that turned out not to have been true about trump about russia for instance. was that misinformation? was it deliberate misinformation? i m not trying to look inside people s hearts. but i think it s easy to believe things that are not true and have been amplified on social media. and i think the job of journalism, when we can, is to maybe spend a little less time analyzing tweets and more reporting out the details of stories. public health is a great example of a place where often you can say this is not true, take the vaccine. and i m not in disagreement