Medical experts are stressing the importance of getting your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
Health officials are expressing their concern over an alarming number of people not going back for the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 11:21 AM
Posted By: Madelyne Watkins
ROCHESTER, Minn. - While more than 95 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a growing number of people have missed their scheduled second dose of the shot. That s according to the CDC. Medical experts are saying they re not all that surprised by this, but it does raise concerns.
More than five million people, or about 8%, had missed their second Pfizer or Moderna doses as of early April. Freeborn County Public Health Director, Sue Yost, said if you want to be the most protected against COVID-19, then you obviously need both doses if that s what it requires. When you only have one dose, you re 65% protected. But when you have both, that percentage increases to 9