The White House's COVID-19 coordinator said a sharp rise in cases and hospitalizations since Thanksgiving wasn't 'totally' surprising — and he reiterated that holiday gatherings would be safer if people received their updated vaccines.
She cited one figure from Jha himself that less than half of nursing home residents had gotten their updated booster despite being in a high-risk group. "Why hasn't this been happening?" she asked.
"If we're going to get a country as big and diverse as ours through this difficult period, we're all going to have to pull on this together," he said. "From a benefit point of view, these are incredibly safe vaccines. They clearly work. They clearly reduce infections to some degree, hospitalizations and deaths to a very, very large degree," Jha said. "The thing I remind people -- people often say, 'Well, I got my booster last year, do I really need it?' And I say, 'Well, I got my flu shot last year. I don't expect that to protect me this winter.
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