[entee]

Burying the lede:

“ While millions of people have missed their second shots, the overall rates of follow-through, with some 92 percent getting fully vaccinated, are strong by historical standards. Roughly three-quarters of adults come back for their second dose of the vaccine that protects against shingles.”

Things are going relatively well, headline is overly alarmist.

[coffeefirst]

Yes. Also

1. One shot still cuts the spread, take the win.

2. We’re still in the mad rush shots-in-arms phase. There will be a time when the most important thing to do is for people’s doctors to convince skeptics and check that everyone got their booster, but we’re still a ways out from there.

[entee]

Agreed. Boosters will probably be required yearly or so, and those will then be the “second shot” for lots of people.

The only caveat is that partial immunization can create the conditions for viral escape, but hopefully we’ll have boosters by then.

[steverb]

Wait... the second dose of the covid vaccine protects you from shingles? This is news to me.

Does anyone have a source for that? My quick google search doesn't give me any results that aren't about the Shingrix vaccine.

[rafram]

They’re comparing second-dose no-shows for the COVID vaccine with second-dose no-shows for the Shingrix vaccine. They’re not saying that the COVID vaccine protects you from shingles (it doesn’t).

[steverb]

Yeah, I need to make a personal rule about posting questions before I've had any caffeine.

[steverb]

Nevermind, I see that I misread, they are comparing second shot rates of covid against second shot rates of the shingles vaccine.