{"id":1899,"date":"2021-08-12T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:40:52","slug":"bidens-big-covid-challenge-fading-vaccines-may-demand-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s big COVID challenge: Fading vaccines may demand boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/authors\/caitlin\/\">Caitlin Owens<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/authors\/baker\/\">Sam Bake<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">The Biden administration is intensely scrutinizing coronavirus vaccines&#8217; effectiveness over time, facing the daunting task of timing booster shots right while still convincing the unvaccinated that getting the jab is worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>The bottom line:&nbsp;<\/strong>The vaccines still work incredibly well at protecting against severe disease and death, meaning the benefits of getting vaccinated are immense. But it&#8217;s less clear how well they&#8217;re working at preventing infection, which has huge public health implications with so many Americans still unvaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>\u201cI think everybody believes<\/strong>&nbsp;this wanes over time, the question is to what extent,\u201d a senior Biden official said. \u201cNobody wants to be behind the eight-ball here. We want to catch it before there\u2019s an issue, and that\u2019s why there is very intense scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><li>But getting the timing right won&#8217;t be easy, especially without better data than we have now.<\/li><li>\u201cBy the time we have the data that efficacy is declining, we\u2019re already behind,\u201d said a person close to the administration. \u201cA public health decision can be made on imperfect data. So are you waiting for a ton of breakthrough cases and a ton of death and disease before you boost everyone? That\u2019s not a good idea.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/vaccine-efficacy-biden-pfizer-moderna-death-infetion-4403be7b-ced7-410e-9c19-67e201f031f7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/vaccine-efficacy-biden-pfizer-moderna-death-infetion-4403be7b-ced7-410e-9c19-67e201f031f7.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Caitlin Owens,\u00a0Sam Bake The Biden administration is intensely scrutinizing coronavirus vaccines&#8217; effectiveness over time, facing the daunting task of timing booster shots right while still convincing the unvaccinated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,375,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booster-shot","category-news-of-the-day","category-vaccine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}