Flu Vaccination

Getting a flu shot could soon be a condition of employment for some nursing home providers if an effort by Delaware state lawmakers continues to gain steam. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to adopt a new quality tracker to keep tabs on influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel in skilled nursing facilities. 

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In total, 17.2 million adult vaccine doses were missed in 2020. And immunizations continue to lag well behind 2019 levels, reports GlaxoSmithKline.

People who received a flu vaccination were 24% less likely to test positive for COVID-19. And those who did contract the disease had a less severe course when compared with people who didn’t get a flu...

Facilities that offered residents the strengthened influenza vaccine Fluad experienced a 17% reduction in suspected and laboratory-confirmed influenza outbreaks, says Vince Mor, Ph.D.

Researchers assessed the effectiveness of the 2019-2020 influenza vaccine in a group of 3,000 adults. There was less likelihood of hospital admission among the 67% who received a vaccination.

“The real risk is that we’re going to have two circulating respiratory pathogens at the same time,” says CDC director Robert Redfield, M.D.

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