May 13, 2021

Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Initiation and Completion Among Active Component Service Members and Health Care Personnel, 11 December 2020-12 March 2021

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Vaccines and Immunity

Keywords (Tags): vaccination hesitancy

• Non-Hispanic Black US military service members were 28% less likely to initiate vaccination than non-Hispanic white members, after adjusting for potential confounders. From December 2020 to March 2021 a total of 361,538 service members (27%) initiated a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Increasing age, higher education levels, higher military rank, and Asian/Pacific Islander race/ethnicity were also associated with increasing incidence of initiation after adjustment for confounders. Similar results were observed when the analysis was restricted only to active military service members.

Lang et al. (Apr 2021). Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Initiation and Completion Among Active Component Service Members and Health Care Personnel, 11 December 2020-12 March 2021. MSMR. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33975434