Key takeaways:

• Influenza vaccination protection was 81% and 47% amongst well being care personnel at acute-care hospitals and nursing houses.
• Up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination protection was a lot decrease at 17% and 23%.

Many well being care personnel working in acute-care hospitals and nursing houses should not updated on really helpful COVID-19 or influenza vaccinations, new research findings recommend.

“Vaccination of health care personnel (HCP) is a critical strategy to minimize transmission of infection in health care settings,” Jeneita Bell, MD, a medical officer in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, and colleagues wrote in MMWR. “HCP are at high risk for work-related exposure to viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 but are less likely to transmit these infections when they are vaccinated.”

Bell and colleagues assessed influenza and up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination protection amongst 8.4 million HCP working in additional than 4,000 acute-care hospitals and two million HCP working in additional than 13,700 nursing houses in the course of the 2022-2023 influenza season. These amenities report knowledge to NHSN in line with surveillance protocols for influenza and COVID-19 vaccination.

For HCP to be thought of “up to date” on COVID-19 vaccination for the research, they need to have obtained both a COVID-19 bivalent booster dose or a major COVID-19 vaccine collection throughout the earlier 2 months, in line with the Immunization Practices and the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definition in the course of the first 6 months of 2023.

Influenza vaccination protection amongst employees at acute-care hospitals was 81% general, Bell and colleagues discovered, with the bottom protection reported amongst nonemployee licensed practitioners (67.2%) and highest amongst workers (83.1%) and nonemployee college students and volunteers (85.2%).

Geographically, the research confirmed that influenza vaccination protection amongst HCPs in acute-care hospitals was highest within the Midwest (84.7%) and lowest within the Pacific area (74.4%).

Among HCP working in nursing houses, influenza vaccination protection was 47.1% general, with the bottom protection reported amongst workers (46.1%) and highest amongst nonemployee licensed practitioners (55.3%) and nonemployee college students and volunteers (57.7%). Coverage in nursing houses was highest within the Pacific area (61.1%) and lowest within the South (39.7%).

Among HCP working in acute-care hospitals, up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination protection was 17.2% general. It was highest within the Pacific area (28.9%) and lowest within the Mountain area (9.1%), with no substantial variations by employees sort or urbanicity.

Among HCP in nursing houses, up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination protection was 22.8% general, with protection being highest amongst nonemployee licensed practitioners (28.2%) and lowest amongst workers (22.4%). Coverage was highest amongst HCP working within the Pacific area (40.7%) and lowest amongst these working within the South (17.5%). The research additionally confirmed that up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination was “substantially higher” amongst HCP working at nursing houses situated in city areas (24.2%) vs. these in rural areas (17.5%).

“There is a need to promote evidence-based strategies to improve vaccination coverage among HCP,” the authors wrote. “Tailored strategies might be useful to reach all HCP with recommended vaccines to protect them and their patients from vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases.”

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