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- Title
Influenza and Up-to-Date COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel -- National Healthcare Safety Network, United States, 2022-23 Influenza Season.
- Authors
Bell, Jeneita; Lu Meng; Barbre, Kira; Haanschoten, Emily; Reses, Hannah E.; Minn Soe; Edwards, Jonathan; Massey, Jason; Yagama Reddy, Gnanendra Reddy Tugu; Woods, Austin; Stuckey, Matthew J.; Kuhar, David T.; Bolden, Kayla; Dubendris, Heather; Wong, Emily; Rowe, Theresa; Lindley, Megan C.; Kalayil, Elizabeth J.; Benin, Andrea
- Abstract
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that health care personnel (HCP) receive an annual influenza vaccine and that everyone aged =6 months stay up to date with recommended COVID-19 vaccination. Health care facilities report vaccination of HCP against influenza and COVID-19 to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). During January-June 2023, NHSN defined up-todate COVID-19 vaccination as receipt of a bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose or completion of a primary series within the preceding 2 months. This analysis describes influenza and up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination coverage among HCP working in acute care hospitals and nursing homes during the 2022-23 influenza season (October 1, 2022-March 31, 2023). Influenza vaccination coverage was 81.0% among HCP at acute care hospitals and 47.1% among those working at nursing homes. Up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination coverage was 17.2% among HCP working at acute care hospitals and 22.8% among those working at nursing homes. There is a need to promote evidence-based strategies to improve vaccination coverage among HCP. Tailored strategies might also be useful to reach all HCP with recommended vaccines and protect them and their patients from vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases.
- Subjects
COVID-19 vaccines; HEALTH of medical personnel; INFLUENZA; IMMUNIZATION; EVIDENCE-based medicine
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2023, Vol 72, Issue 45, p1237
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15585/mmwr.mm7245a5