Brief Report
COVID-19 booster vaccination coverage among adults, children and adolescents and reasons for non-receipt, United States

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.01.008Get rights and content

Highlights

  • Despite recommendations, booster vaccination for adults, children and adolescents remain low.

  • Booster vaccination for all groups differed by sociodemographic characteristics.

  • Further efforts are needed to address disparities in uptake of booster vaccines.

  • The main reason for non-booster vaccination is the belief that it's not necessary.

  • Being up-to-date for all eligible boosters is needed to prevent infection and disease.

We assessed COVID-19 booster vaccination coverage and reasons for non-receipt using a large, nationally representative survey (June – August, 2022). Booster vaccination coverage was 71.7% among adults, 36.8% among children, and 51.6% among adolescents. Reasons for non-receipt included the belief that it was not necessary and lack of time for vaccination. All eligible individuals should receive the updated booster vaccines as soon as possible to protect against new variants of COVID-19.

Key Words

COVID-19 vaccination
Vaccine hesitancy
Adults

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Funding/Support: No funding was secured for this study. Laura Corlin was supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) grant number K12HD092535.

Conflicts of interest: None to report.

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/datasets.html.

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Equal contribution.

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