Abstract
Surveillance of Vaccination Coverage Among Adult Populations -United States, 2018.
Highlights
Adults are at risk for illness, hospitalization, disability, and death from vaccine-preventable diseases, influenza and pneumococcal diseases [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Racial/ethnic vaccination differences persisted for routinely recommended adult vaccines
Estimates of proportions vaccinated were stratified by age group, risk status, health insurance status, having a usual place for health care, number of physician contacts during the preceding 12 months, nativity, number of years living in the United States, and citizenship
Summary
Adults are at risk for illness, hospitalization, disability, and death from vaccine-preventable diseases, influenza and pneumococcal diseases [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. 50%–70% of these hospitalizations occurred among adults aged ≥65 years, this age group accounts for only 15% of the U.S population [2]. Despite reduction in disease burden, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remains an important cause of illness and death in the United States, with an estimated 31,000 cases of IPD and 3,590 deaths among persons of all ages in 2017 [3]. 90% of these IPD cases and deaths occurred in adults aged ≥18 years [3]
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