Patient group calls for recurring COVID-19 boosters to cut through vaccine apathy

• Fewer than one in three Americans have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster
• A patient safety nonprofit says a recurring booster schedule would improve vaccination.
• Some expert disagree with additional boosters, citing a lack of data.

Fewer than one in three Americans have received an extra shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and one patient safety group thinks that's a public health challenge. 

The nonprofit ECRI said in a position paper that adopting a booster shot schedule targeting emerging variants would create certainty and convince more Americans to get boosted and help reduce COVID-19 spread in communities.