As the US was entering the 2022 holiday season—a time when public health experts anticipated a spike in cases of COVID-19—most nursing home residents and staff members were not up to date with their vaccinations against the disease, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)... [JAMA Health Forum] 

The KFF authors analyzed data on vaccination rates of nursing facility residents and staff members in the 14 400 nursing facilities that reported such data (out of 15 200 total). In their analysis, they found that as of November 20, fewer than half (45%) of all nursing facility residents and fewer than a one-quarter of staff (22%) were up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, defined by the CDC as “having received a bivalent booster or having received a final shot of the original vaccines less than 2 months ago.”

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