Few Seniors Taking RSV Vaccines; Most Adults Decline New COVID-19 Shots: CDC Studies

Published on December 21, 2023

Few older adults are taking the recently cleared respiratory syncytial virus vaccines, according to new studies from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Just 9.8 percent of seniors in nursing homes have received one of the shots against the virus, known as RSV, one of the papers showed. The study analyzed data provided by nursing homes certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. According to the nursing home data, just 33 percent of seniors have taken a new COVID-19 vaccine, while about seven in 10 have taken an influenza vaccine this fall. The data were current as of Dec. 10....

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