A new COVID vaccine is due out next month, but health experts and analysts say it is likely to be coolly received even as hospitalizations from "Eris", a variant of the Omicron form of the coronavirus, rise around the country.

Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot.

In the fall of 2022, by which time most people had either had the COVID virus or the vaccine, fewer than 50 million people got the shots.

  • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    First shots I felt ok. It was the second booster where I started to feel strange.

    I thought I was having a panic attack. I’d never had one before but it was ongoing for days.

    I went to urgent care thinking they’d give me some Valium or something.

    Blood pressure was 190 and my pulse was 140. They sent me straight to the ER.

    Normally my pulse is 60 and my blood pressures 120/80.

    My insurance must be good. Both visit only cost me 75 dollars The ER cardiologist said they were getting flooded with people after the booster. Good news is it clears up in most people in a few weeks or months.

    My heart rate is stable but my Bp is still high. About 130 but I need to drop a few pounds I gained since I couldn’t excercise.

    I did catch a mild case of Covid. The congestion was horrible. Why I’d get the vaccine again. Even a mild case was pretty miserable.