{"id":19986,"date":"2022-07-18T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:50:09","slug":"boost-now-or-wait-many-wonder-how-best-to-ride-out-covids-next-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19986","title":{"rendered":"Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How Best to Ride Out Covid\u2019s Next Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Sam Whitehead and Arthur Allen for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gwyneth Paige didn\u2019t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues \u2014 hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma \u2014 she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt that point, I didn\u2019t care if the vaccine killed me,\u201d she said. \u201cTo be with my mother throughout her journey, I had to have the vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paige, who is 56 and lives in Detroit, has received three doses. That leaves her one booster short of federal health recommendations. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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