Researchers conducted a study to track how many health care personnel in the United States received their influenza (flu) and COVID-19 vaccinations. The study followed workers from October 2023 through March 2024. It was an observational study, meaning it collected data on what happened but did not test an intervention or assign people to different groups.
The study focused on health care personnel, but the report did not specify the number of people included or the actual vaccination coverage rates it found. The results for both flu and COVID-19 shot uptake were not reported in the available information. No safety data or adverse events related to the vaccines were discussed in this coverage report.
Because this was an observational tracking study and the key results are not available, it is difficult to draw any firm conclusions. The study cannot tell us what caused vaccination rates to be high or low. Readers should know this report simply describes an effort to monitor vaccination, and we are waiting for the actual findings on how many health care workers got vaccinated.