Most Nursing Home Staff
and Residents Are Not Up to Date with Their COVID-19 Vaccines
As winter approaches, a new KFF
analysis finds that less than half (45%) of all nursing
facility residents and less than a quarter of staff (22%) are up to date
with their COVID-19 vaccinations. That is a sharp drop from the 87
percent of nursing facility residents and staff who completed their
primary vaccination series.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now defines
being up to date as “having received a bivalent booster or having
received a final shot of the original vaccines less than two months
ago.”
Federal vaccine clinics
and health care worker vaccine mandates contributed to high initial
vaccination rates among nursing facility residents and staff. But without
ongoing federal initiatives, fewer people may stay up to date with their
vaccines.
The share of residents who are up to date ranged from 73 percent in South
Dakota to 24 percent in Arizona. Among nursing home staff, the share
ranged from 48 percent in California to 10 percent in Alabama.
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