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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Tamla Adams has questions astir the booster shot. She is afloat vaccinated, having taken the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Still, she said she is acceptable to get the booster if needed.
“Yes, on with my family, we each privation to get one,” Adams told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren.
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She said she remains acrophobic astir the rising fig of covid cases. Maryland reported astir 1,000 caller infections Monday. “We didn’t cognize if this changeable was going to beryllium 100% bulletproof truthful it’s ever going to beryllium a interest to maine with the vaccine oregon without it.”
Vaccine information had been delayed successful Maryland owed to what the authorities said was a “data processing issue.” The updated numbers amusement astir 9 1000 vaccinated radical person received their further changeable since the Pfizer booster was approved Friday. @wjz pic.twitter.com/z8sbW5YTBp
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 27, 2021
In Maryland, 60,624 afloat vaccinated radical person gotten an further dose of vaccine. That is up by 8,920 shots since Friday erstwhile the authorities and the CDC approved Pfizer boosters for those older than 65, those with superior wellness conditions and those with jobs that enactment them astatine risk.
The politician authorizes booster shots for eligible radical successful Maryland @wjz pic.twitter.com/DIbu4ryxDb
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 24, 2021
You tin work much astir who is eligible here.
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A “data processing issue” delayed the vaccine information connected Monday, according to the Maryland Department of Health.
Today's vaccine information was delayed owed to a information processing issue. The contented has been resolved and updates are present posted to the dashboard astatine https://t.co/au1rDvSW4Y.
— Maryland Department of Health (@MDHealthDept) September 27, 2021
Dr. David Dowdy, an subordinate prof of epidemiology astatine the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Hellgren it is bully to cheque with your doc if you person questions astir whether to get the further shot.
“Anytime you person a scenery this analyzable wherever you’ve got 3 antithetic vaccines retired determination and antithetic radical person been vaccinated for antithetic periods of time, there’s going to beryllium immoderate confusion. Talking to your doc is ever a precise tenable option. And wherever it was that you got your vaccine from—vaccine providers—they are besides getting up-to-date accusation arsenic to who is eligible and who they should beryllium giving the vaccine to,“ Dr. Dowdy said.
The absorption successful Maryland and crossed the state remains connected convincing the unvaccinated to get the shot. In Baltimore City, 65.7% of those 12 and older person received astatine slightest 1 dose.
Breakthrough cases—those infections among the vaccinated—have besides accrued arsenic the Delta variant has spread. There person been 18,243 breakthrough cases successful Maryland since January—making up astir 11% of infections.
Doctors enactment those vaccinated are overmuch little apt to get earnestly ill.
“Breakthrough cases are uncommon events and particularly breakthrough cases starring to hospitalization and death. That is incredibly rare,” Dr. Cameron Webb, a subordinate of The White House’s covid effect team, told Hellgren.
The vaccinated relationship for less than 1 successful 10 of those hospitalized and with covid successful Maryland.
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