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As COVID stages another winter comeback, many Californians don’t appear to care

by Universalwellnesssystems

The Bay Area was a model for cooperation early in the COVID pandemic. Residents took shelter indoors, queued for vaccines and wore masks in public. Many locals watched in amazement as health precautions were politicized in other parts of the country.

But even in this conscientious area, vigilance has not persisted.As
Another winter COVID surge
Take control of the area, many people
throw away the mask
When
Skip latest booster
— An important tool to prevent serious illness, as previous vaccinations and infections weaken immunity.

Since the advent of vaccines and better COVID treatments, and the lifting of blunt government measures such as mask mandates,
coronavirus
Became
More laissez-faire.
this approach
“Think for yourself”
pandemic era. However, individual choices have taken a heavy toll on vulnerable populations such as the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, some of whom are withdrawing from public spaces once again.

The widespread indifference to the recent surge has caused considerable confusion about how to act at this stage of the crisis. Experts specifically say the deployment of the new bivalent vaccine booster is the first to target both the original coronavirus and the Omicron family of variants. Without government resources, many Americans are unaware of the benefits of boosters, even their existence.

“The situation is that people as individuals are left to make decisions,” says Dennis Hurd, a professor of behavioral sciences at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Without much support for some of the measures, we’ll see what to do now.”

To date, only 20.5% of eligible Californians have received the bivalent vaccine, leaving the majority vulnerable to more serious illnesses.california intake
National average 14.6%,
However, this is only a fraction of the 72.5% of people who received the first two series of vaccines.Bivalent vaccine is licensed for Californians
6 months or more,

depending on
When someone completes the first two dose series and finally receives the old “monovalent” booster.

Bay Area counties lead the California average in booster intake, but the percentage remains relatively low, ranging from 23% to 38% of the eligible population.maybe it contributes
Sharp increase in local COVID cases
last month and
Increase in hospitalized patients
Outbreaks of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) will further strain an already strained healthcare system.

‘Pandemic Fatigue’ and Confusion

Marin County Public Health Officer Matt Willis said some fatigue from the pandemic is “normal, normal and real.”he said the term
I am using it since 2020.
Perhaps now, “we are suffering from pandemic fatigue,” Willis said.

After all, self-regulation is “like a muscle that gets tired,” said Benjamin Rosenberg, a professor of psychology at Dominican University in California. “It’s exhausting to calculate the risk every time you go out,” he said.

a
Recent Chronicle Survey
Despite the current COVID resurgence, we’ve found that fewer Bay Area residents wear masks and go to the supermarket. While not a scientific study, comments made to reporters (who said those not wearing masks “give up” and “want to get on with their lives”) are public health concerns that encourage voluntary compliance. I highlighted the problem above.

Kevin Shulman, a Stanford University School of Medicine professor who studied the marketing campaign for the first vaccine in 2021, said it’s easier for people to make sound decisions when they have clear, reliable, and accessible information. The decision itself will also be relatively easy, Shulman said, and in the context of the pandemic, these attributes are hard to find.

“This is no longer the scientific effort we all follow every week,” Schulman said.

In fact, Rosenberg added that COVID has been replaced by other “big-ticket items at the top of people’s lists of things to read,” including inflation, layoffs, Ukraine, abortion rights, the Warriors, and the weather. And there’s so much bad news that it’s healthy to absorb: psychologists have actually measured.
increased news-related stress,
According to the American Psychological Association.

“Some people are literally turning away from information about COVID. It’s almost like the ‘ignorance is bliss’ instinct,” Rosenberg said.

A lack of interest undermines cooperation in public health efforts. For example, in a September poll,
half of the American population
I had heard “little or nothing” about bivalent vaccines.

But lukewarm messages and a lack of mass marketing campaigns are to blame, Schulman said. “We haven’t put as much effort into getting people to vote for someone,” he said, referring to political ads during the midterm elections.

Debbie Toth, CEO of Pleasant Hill-based nonprofit Choice in Aging, added that information is not reaching the people who need it most. Older people get their information primarily from radio and television news, and sometimes from local newspapers. “You can say that older people don’t go to public health websites and look it up,” she said.

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