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State-level Flu Vaccination Rates Among Key Population Subgroups (50-state profiles)

February 2021:

As the nation and individual states prepare to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination rollout campaigns beyond the initial phase of prioritized recipients, understanding the challenges they face in getting vaccines to key resident demographics is important to their success in achieving population-level coronavirus immunity—also commonly known as “herd immunity.”

While states and federal organizations are slowly beginning to collect and disseminate what data they’ve been able to collect regarding COVID vaccination thus far, it is still limited. Adult flu vaccine data, however, can be used as the best available proxy in the meantime for understanding vaccination patterns across states and the nation on a larger scale.

This set of two-page infographics explores state-level estimates on flu vaccination rates for adults (age 18+) using data for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey.

The infographics provide comparisons for individual state flu vaccine rates to the minimum COVID-19 herd immunity target (70%). Each individual state infographic also highlights vaccination rates for individual states as compared to a number of demographic categories, including age, race/ethnicity, household income level, insurance status, chronic conditions, access to care, and educational attainment.

Click on a state below to see its two-page infographic. Click here to access the District of Columbia infographic. Click here to access the United States infographic. 

 

State Health Compare Flu Vaccination Data
SHADAC has just added a measure of 
Adult Flu Vaccination rates to our State Health Compare data tool. Data have been drawn from pooled years of the 2017-2019 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the same survey used to produce the estimates for these infographics. Users are also able to view the estimates by categories of age, chronic disease status, coverage type, education, household income, metropolitan status, personal doctor status, race/ethnicity, and sex. 

​Click here to explore the flu vaccination measure further on State Health Compare

 

Further Reading and Resources
Anticipating COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges through Flu Vaccination Patterns
SHADAC Brief, January 2021

New Brief Examines Flu Vaccine Patterns as a Proxy for COVID – Anticipating and Addressing Coronavirus Vaccination Campaign Challenges at the National and State Level
SHADAC Blog, January 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges: Illustrating Hurdles to Population Immunity and Equity Using Flu Vaccination Data
SHADAC Webinar, February 2021

Ensuring Equity: State Strategies for Monitoring COVID-19 Vaccination Rates by Race and Other Priority Populations
SHVS Expert Perspective, February 2021

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