I can tell you in my area (US state) that almost no one has gotten a booster past the first two, and only about half the population got both boosters in the first place.
It's only the older section of the population that gets boosters in the UK.
In the UK, only people 50 and over are invited to get a yearly booster. And if you are elderly, then you get invited for twice yearly boosters.
Presumably the same occurs in your state.
Are there really people on this forum that just aren't psychologically prepared for covid to be over?
COVID will never be over for the 65 million long COVID patients throughout the world, whose lives have been placed on pause, and who are living in misery unable to work or socialise much, until such time as a cure for long COVID is discovered (which might take many decades).
It's looking like long COVID is just ME/CFS, but caused by a different virus to the usual viruses that trigger ME/CFS. But science is still clueless as to the cause of ME/CFS, even though we know it is virally triggered.
Neither will COVID ever be over for the 17 million regular ME/CFS patients around the world (such as myself).
I got substantially and permanently worse after catching COVID in April 2022.
Surveys have shown that it is common for ME/CFS patients to get worse after COVID. And any subsequent COVID reinfections may make ME/CFS patients even worse still.
All my friends and family around me have given up with precautions (except vaccines). So I have no protection from getting further infections. The COVID vaccines are not very effective at preventing long COVID, so I am just resigned to the fact that when I get COVID once again, which is inevitable, I will likely have an ever further reduction in health.
I am not blaming people for not following precautions (such as masks or testing). They think the pandemic is over, and they just want to get back to normal.
It may be over for them. Although each time the catch COVID again, they are risking joining the ever increasing number of people imprisoned with long COVID.
Edited by Hip, 28 January 2023 - 12:52 AM.