Santa Clara County's top health official urged residents Monday to get an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine if they are eligible to do so as the holiday season approaches.
"Now that just about everyone is eligible, I want to address a question head on, and that question is 'do I really need it?'," Cody said Monday during a briefing at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds."To cut to the conclusion, yes you do. You do need your bivalent booster, and especially if you're 50 years or older."
The vaccine will also help protect others during the winter holidays, she argued, when large groups of people will gather indoors in close proximity. Cody also reiterated a point she made earlier in October, that while the county's case count is at a nadir compared to where it was in the spring and early summer, the amount of virus particles circulating in the county's sewersheds and, by extension, the risk of the virus spreading remains elevated.
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