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... According to polling by Politico and Morning Consult, 57 percent of registered voters said they would "probably" or "definitely" get the vaccine, which is a monovalent shot that targets the recent omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5. Specifically, 20 percent of voters said they would probably get the shot, while 37 percent said they definitely would.
Collectively, that's nearly triple the actual uptake of last year's updated vaccine, a bivalent shot that targeted both the ancestral strain and the omicron subvariants BA.4/5. In total, 20.5 percent of people age 18 or older received that shot, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, 17 percent of the US population got the bivalent booster.
The latest polling results largely square with a KFF COVID-19 vaccine monitor poll reported in April that found that 53 percent of Americans would likely get an annual COVID-19 shot if it was offered similar to an annual flu shot. Nearly a third, 32 percent, said they would be "very likely" to do so.
While the boosted interest in the latest vaccine is likely heartening to officials, the polling still shows a dangerous partisan divide that has plagued public health responses throughout the pandemic. In the Politico/Morning Consult poll, 79 percent of Democrats said they planned to get the updated shot, but only 39 percent of Republicans said the same.
That leaves 61 percent of Republicans who indicated they would not seek out the new vaccine. Forty-four percent of Republicans reported they "definitely" will not get the booster, while 17 percent said they "probably" will not. Independents, meanwhile, were split, with 48 percent saying they would "probably" or "definitely" get vaccinated. ...
