he average daily rate of Americans receiving COVID booster shots has fallen by half since a peak of about 1 million people getting boosters per day in December to about 490,000 as of last week, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
About 63 percent of Americans, amounting to about 210 million people, have been fully vaccinated in just over a year since the COVID vaccination program began in the U.S., according to the CDC. However, only 84 million of those people, or about 40 percent of fully vaccinated individuals, have received a booster shot since they became available late last year.
Research has shown that booster doses can provide protection against COVID, especially the Omicron variant, which has proven to be more vaccine resistant than prior variants, the Associated Press reported.
In Colorado, the state health department reported that those who had received a booster shot were about 7 times less likely to be hospitalized than those who were fully vaccinated, and about 46 times less likely than unvaccinated individuals, according to Axios.
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