This week the FDA followed the guidance of the CDC to unanimously expand Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine boosters to everyone 18 and older. The guidance comes on the back of poor uptake of vaccines across the country that have failed to get our population past the line of herd immunity and a spike in cases that are being seen in Europe including Germany, The Netherlands, and Austria, all reacting in different ways and important to watch as they are considered a bellwether for the US.

While we have seen vaccine resistance in our past, this time around the impact of many bad actors who continue to obfuscate the facts and science has caused a big uptick in vaccine hesitancy and resistance. This is despite the bodies piling up so fast in some countries like India where they were overrun with funeral pyres. Here in the United States, some states were having to bring in freezer trucks to store the overflow of dead bodies from hospitals but our total vaccination rate hovers around 60% – not enough to suppress the virus and this allows for breakthrough infections and more variants of concerns.

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