“Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you’re more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster.”
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, on Jan. 17, 2023, during a press conference
As he proposed to extend the state’s ban on mandates for covid vaccines and face masks, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis lobbed a flurry of criticism at President Joe Biden and “the medical establishment.”
“They were not following the science,” DeSantis said at a Jan. 17 press conference in Panama City Beach. “Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you’re more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster.”
Fewer than 11% of eligible Floridians have received an updated booster vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The bivalent booster, which contains components of the original covid virus and the omicron variant, is designed to provide broad protection against illness or hospitalization from those covid strains.
Research into the efficacy of the bivalent booster in preventing infection continues.
Broadly speaking, covid vaccines do not prevent infection; they prevent the virus from spreading within the body and causing severe illness, according to Johns Hopkins University. Early CDC research shows that people who got the booster were 84% less likely to be hospitalized from covid.
The data collected on the booster’s ability to curb infection is early and limited. Some clinical trials have shown that bivalent shots are...
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