{"id":9723,"date":"2021-05-11T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:51:53","slug":"demographic-and-social-factors-associated-with-covid-19-vaccination-initiation-among-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-december-14-2020-april-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/demographic-and-social-factors-associated-with-covid-19-vaccination-initiation-among-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-december-14-2020-april-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic and Social Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination Initiation Among Adults Aged =65 Years \u2014 United States, December 14, 2020\u2013April 10, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">79% of US older adults (aged \u226565 years, n&gt;42 million) have received at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of April 10, 2021. On average, counties with low vaccination rates (&lt;50% of older adults) compared with counties with high vaccination rates (\u226575% of older adults) had higher percentages of older adults who do not own a computer (25% vs 19%), have no internet access (10% vs 7%), report living alone (14% vs 12%), and live below the federal poverty line (10% vs 8%). The proportion of residents who belong to a racial\/ethnic minority group was similar in low and high vaccination rate counties, although race\/ethnicity was missing in 42% of records among recipients of at least one dose.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whiteman et al. (May 11, 2021). Demographic and Social Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccination Initiation Among Adults Aged =65 Years \u2014 United States, December 14, 2020\u2013April 10, 2021. MMWR.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7019e4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7019e4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>79% of US older adults (aged \u226565 years, n&gt;42 million) have received at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of April 10, 2021. On average, counties with low vaccination rates (&lt;50% of older adults) compared with counties with high vaccination rates (\u226575% of older adults) had higher percentages of older adults who do&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/11\/demographic-and-social-factors-associated-with-covid-19-vaccination-initiation-among-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-december-14-2020-april-10-2021\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,147],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-vaccination","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9724,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}