People need to make personal decisions about their risk for COVID-19 based on their comfort level Anthony Fauci, MD, said recently.
Any time beyond 4 months since an initial booster shot would be an ideal time to get another vaccination, says Ali Mokdad, PhD, chief strategy officer for population health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle."The number one question I get right now is: Should I get my second booster?" Ostrosky says.
"'Individualized risk' is a fancy way of saying 'personal responsibility,' says Pitts, who also is co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest."We need to pivot from explaining the data to putting it into the perspective of individual actions based on personal, familial, and community responsibility."Asking people to keep up their guard after more than 2 years of the pandemic adds to the challenge."People are tired.
Giordano says it comes down to two questions: What is your risk of exposure to COVID, and what is your risk of bad disease if you are exposed?The agency provides color-coded levels of COVID in a community searchable by US county: green for low, yellow for medium, and red for high "So folks do not go and test," Mokdad said,"as they do not have symptoms and hence a reason to do so unless needed for travel or they know they were exposed."
"With this three-axis matrix, you can make a decision whether an activity is worthwhile for you or not and whether it is risky for you or not," he says."With this matrix and masking and vaccination, you can navigate the pandemic."More new COVID-19 cases are not surprising"when there is a pullback on mitigation measures," Fauci said during the Sunday talk show.
Pitts was even more optimistic."Dr. Fauci buried the lead: We’re winning. COVID-19 is moving from a deadly pandemic to a manageable, non-lethal endemic."
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