Experts ask for caution during long weekend
Still coping with COVID-19 admissions from Memorial Day festivities, San Diego medical providers say they are concerned that an even bigger hangover will follow the Fourth of July weekend, just as was the case in 2020 and 2021.
While hospitalization levels still remain much lower than they were after the holiday surge this past winter, there are signs that a similar situation is building. “Two weeks from now we would expect to have another uptick because that’s what happens after every holiday,” Sharieff said. Booster doses still do seem to be preventing the most-severe COVID-19 consequences. The most recent 14-day average of COVID-19-related deaths in San Diego County lists a death rate of 0.58 per million residents for those not fully vaccinated, 0.28 per million for those who had their full initial vaccination series and 0.00 per million for those who received at least one booster shot.
One member of the committee told Reuters that experts feel that full clinical trials are unnecessary because the vaccines would be very similar to those already in use, varying only in the specific viral features they attack. Similarly, the flu shot is updated with the most commonly circulating strains every year but large new clinical trials are not performed.
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