Health experts fear it will be hard to convince people to get an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine when they believe the pandemic is over
“It’s hard to motivate people to get boosters when they want to believe this is done,” said Dr. Kelly Grindrod, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy. “And the question is, do we have to keep living through disaster levels for people to stay engaged enough that they want to protect themselves?”
“So it’s a little bit hard to tell right now if the low uptake was just people not interested or if it was the fact that they think they got Omicron, and were just delaying when they got the booster.” Bowdish said that because current vaccines were formulated for the first version of COVID-19, which is quite different from Omicron, they’re not as good at providing long-term protection against the current dominant strain.“With the other variants, we just had to have a little bit of antibodies that would bind to the exact right spot, and that would be sufficient to protect us. But with Omicron, we need to have a lot of antibodies. We have to absolutely cover that virus with antibodies.
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