{"id":648,"date":"2009-07-22T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-07-22T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:18:45","slug":"vaccination-coverage-does-not-reach-national-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/07\/22\/648\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccination coverage does not reach national objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Vaccinations are responsible for reducing disease and death; however, vaccinations among certain population subgroups remain low, and national health objectives have not been met. Despite 2010 influenza and pneumococcal vaccination objectives of 90% for adults 65 and over and 60% for younger, high-risk adults, only 66% of the former and 35% of the latter received an influenza vaccination during the 2006-2007 vaccination period. Also, only 60% of those 65 years and over have ever received a pneumococcal vaccination, and levels vary a great deal by race and ethnicity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more, including information about tetanus and HPV vaccination coverage, visit the <a title=\"Link to Vaccination Coverage Web-Only Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/vaccine_coverage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinations are responsible for reducing disease and death; however, vaccinations among certain population subgroups remain low, and national health objectives have not been met. Despite 2010 influenza and pneumococcal vaccination objectives of 90% for adults 65 and over and 60% for younger, high-risk adults, only 66% of the former and 35% of the latter received<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53763],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}