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COVID vaccine questions; Milwaukee County’s top doctor offers answers
COVID vaccine questions; Milwaukee County’s high physician presents solutions
Milwaukee County’s high physician was an open e book on Tuesday, Sept. 13 – answering questions on COVID-19 and the brand new vaccine booster that targets the most recent variants.
MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee County’s high physician was an open e book on Tuesday, Sept. 13 – answering questions on COVID-19 and the brand new vaccine booster that targets the most recent variants.
Dr. Ben Weston, Milwaukee County’s Chief Well being Coverage Advisor, fielded questions from the general public (together with college students from the College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and FOX6 Information viewers) on Tuesday – together with how typically individuals ought to get boosted, and what individuals ought to know in regards to the negative effects?
Weston sails on the subject of the boosters, negative effects are just like previous vaccines – a sore arm, physique aches, chills, and low-grade fever.
“Look, this up to date booster is similar know-how, it’s identical mechanism as the unique vaccine and boosters that we seen up to now,” Weston mentioned.
The physician steered getting the most recent booster that fights in opposition to the omicron variant – particularly with fall and winter forward.
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“I’m hopeful we begin to get on a extra common predictable cadence, it’s not unlikely that cadence is annual, however possible a every year type of booster that we will all get to maintain us all protected,” Weston mentioned.
School college students instructed FOX6 Information the COVID booster is on their thoughts.
“For positive, courses will be with a whole bunch of individuals and so COVID continues to be occurring it’s like some other illness it’s going to maintain occurring,” mentioned Madison Pecha, pupil.
“We’re risk-takers, if we now have to take a danger to search out out the higher state of affairs, why not,” mentioned Atana Ekpenyong, pupil.
“They work together with academics and their educators, every individual they work together with is taking an quantity of danger being with them,” Dr. Weston mentioned.
The physician mentioned Milwaukee County is seeing a decline in COVID-19 circumstances. He mentioned the county stays in medium CDC COVID-19 stage. However he believes by subsequent week, the county might be in low stage.