Survey: Americans Wary of Fall Flu, COVID Vaccines
Gee, I wonder why
A lot of Americans are on the fence regarding annual flu and
COVID shots, a new survey finds.
More than one-third of those polled (37%) said they’d gotten vaccines in the past but don’t plan to this year, according to results from a nationwide Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center survey.
Just a slight majority — 56% — plan to get the flu shot this fall, researchers found.
Less than half (43%) say they’ll get the updated COVID vaccine.
“We’re at the start of respiratory virus season, when you have the triple threat of flu, COVID-19 and RSV,” said researcher
Dr. Nora Colburn, medical director of clinical epidemiology at Ohio State’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.
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