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Adults Still Slow to Get Their Shots (CME/CE)

MedPageToday, 2012

In 2010, the analysis showed: 14.4% of adults 60 or older reported receiving herpes zoster vaccination to prevent shingles, up from 10.0% reported in 2009.
The proportion of women ages 19 through 26 reporting at least one dose of the HPV vaccine rose 3.6 percentage points to 20.7%.
The proportion of respondents ages 19 through 64 who reported a Tdap vaccination rose 1.6 percentage points to 8.2%.
The CDC cautioned that the Tdap figures are "subject to considerable uncertainty" because they do not include any participant who reported a tetanus shot during 2005–2010 but was unable to say whether it included a pertussis component.
Overall, tetanus coverage – defined as any tetanus shot with the previous 10 years – was stable at 64%, the CDC reported.
The agency also reported: The rate of pneumococcal vaccination among those ages 19 through 64 who were considered at high risk was 18.5%, not different from 2009.
Among those 65 and older, the pneumococcal vaccination rate was higher – at 59.7% -- but again not significantly different from 2009.
The rate of those who had ever had at least two doses of hepatitis A vaccine was 10.7%, slightly – but not significantly – up from 2009.
The rate of participants ages 19 through 49 who reported ever having at least three doses of hepatitis B vaccine was 42% among those at high risk and 33.1% among others.
The hepatitis B vaccination rate among participants with diabetes aged 19 through 59 and 60 or older was 22.8% and 10.9%, respectively, and not different from 2009.
All of the vaccine coverage rates remain below the targets set in the Healthy People 2020 guidelines, the CDC said.