How physicians can address COVID-19 vaccine booster fatigue
FEB 22, 2023
Sara Berg, MS
Senior News Writer
AMA
For nearly three years now, there has been nonstop discussion and emphasis on the importance of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. With many people developing COVID-19 booster fatigue, physicians must find ways to break through without adding further burden on their patients.
Much like pandemic fatigue, this phenomenon is defined as unwillingness or inaction towards vaccine information or instruction due to perceived burden or burnout. In turn, patients are slow to line up for their COVID-19 bivalent boosters even as the highly transmissible XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant has become the dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. To date, only 15.8% of the U.S. population have received an updated bivalent booster dose.