{"id":4460,"date":"2021-02-19T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T04:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:35:55","slug":"decline-in-receipt-of-vaccines-by-medicare-beneficiaries-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/decline-in-receipt-of-vaccines-by-medicare-beneficiaries-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline in Receipt of Vaccines by Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic &#8211; United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the first week after the national COVID-19 emergency declaration in March 2020, weekly vaccination rates for bacterial pneumonia, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, and shingles<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>among Medicare beneficiaries over the age of 65 declined by 25% to 62% compared with the corresponding period in 2019. Vaccination rates among racial and ethnic minority adults were lower than were those among white adults. By mid-April 2020, vaccination rates reached low points of 70% to 89% below 2019 rates. Vaccination rates partially recovered gradually during the period between May and July 2020, when data collection ended.<\/p>\n<p><i>Hong et al.\u00a0(Feb 19, 2021). Decline in Receipt of Vaccines by Medicare Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic &#8211; United States, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7007a4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7007a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first week after the national COVID-19 emergency declaration in March 2020, weekly vaccination rates for bacterial pneumonia, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, and shingles\u00a0 among Medicare beneficiaries over the age of 65 declined by 25% to 62% compared with the corresponding period in 2019. Vaccination rates among racial and ethnic minority adults were lower than were those&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/19\/decline-in-receipt-of-vaccines-by-medicare-beneficiaries-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}