CBS: “boosted” Americans are catching Covid at double the rate of “non boosted”

&quot;So, one of the dynamics here is that people feel, after vaccination and boosting, that they&#x27;re more protected than they actually are, so they increase their risks,&quot; he says (at 1:40). &quot;That, I think, is the major driver of these statistics.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-infection-rate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-i...</a>

Given the lower odds of something terrible happening after you contract Covid if you’ve gotten your shots, isn’t it completely rational for people who’ve been boosted to take more risks? Did we expect boosted people to limit risk forever?

Bottom line from the interview: false sense of security.

This is happening around the world. Any vaccine doses seems to be more protective than no vaccine doses, but, after a few months from latest dose, the <i>fewer</i> (but nonzero) doses you have, the less likely you are to get sick, be hospitalized, or die.

Has anyone quantified the increased risk taking from more vaccinated folk to actually rule it out? Perhaps one could use a survey of time spent in public as as indicator of risk taking behaviors.

I suspect that some people believe (consciously or not) that it&#x27;s ok to be more careless because they&#x27;ve been vaccinated.