The CDC booster column is documented as:
Total number of people who are fully vaccinated and have received a booster (or additional) dose.
which suggests that if someone were to receive a second booster it would not be counted in this column. I'm not sure how the CDC plans to track 4th-shot-boosters when they are authorized (if they will update this column to include those doses or create a new column etc.)
At the moment I've created the CMU variable to mirror the CDC description, but I wonder if we should track doses instead of people so that we can continue to use this variable when future doses are authorized (e.g. by combining future 3rd-, 4th- and subsequent-shot columns into one).
The CDC booster column is documented as:
Total number of people who are fully vaccinated and have received a booster (or additional) dose.which suggests that if someone were to receive a second booster it would not be counted in this column. I'm not sure how the CDC plans to track 4th-shot-boosters when they are authorized (if they will update this column to include those doses or create a new column etc.)At the moment I've created the CMU variable to mirror the CDC description, but I wonder if we should track
dosesinstead ofpeopleso that we can continue to use this variable when future doses are authorized (e.g. by combining future 3rd-, 4th- and subsequent-shot columns into one).