Global study highlights wide disparities in COVID-19 vaccination among older adults

February 4, 2023 Read in 2 minutes Source/Disclosure Issuer: Disclosure: The authors report no relevant financial disclosures. Add topic to email alert Get an email when new articles are posted Enter your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted . " data-actionsubscribe> subscribe Your request could not be processed. Please try again later.If this issue persists, please contact us customerservice@slackinc.com. back to helio About 77% of older people worldwide have been vaccinated against COVID-19, but researchers found wide disparities in vaccination coverage based on income level. Survey results show that 90% of older people in high-income countries are vaccinated, compared to about one-third in low-income countries. data derived from Wong MK, et al. MMWR Mobs Mortal every week manager2023; doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7205a1. By 2022, WHO has set a goal of vaccinating 100% of the population at high risk for SARS-CoV-2. MMWR It suggests that the rest of the world is behind. Among these priority groups are the elderly, who have accounted for approximately 80% of COVID-19-related deaths since the pandemic began in January 2020. “Many low- and middle-income countries have limited access to vaccines and limited capacity to rapidly deploy a COVID-19 vaccine, so the recommended range of primary series and booster doses in low- and middle-income countries is limited. It is taking time to reach the coverage recommended by WHO and national health authorities,” the researchers wrote in the study. They conducted a comparative analysis of COVID-19 deaths and mortality in 2020 and 2021 using publicly available WHO data from three sources: Health worker status by age, gender, and disaggregated cases and deaths by country by week. WHO modeled COVID-19 excess mortality estimates. The researchers also analyzed WHO's latest COVID-19 vaccination coverage to examine age-specific mortality rates and vaccination deployments among adults aged 60 and over in each country, using World Bank national income status. classified. The analysis found that in 73% of low-income countries and 31% of low- and middle-income countries, national mortality estimates exceeded reported COVID-19-related mortality rates by a factor of 10. . By comparison, in most high-income countries, the difference was "less than double." According to researchers, no country has achieved the WHO's 100% vaccination target, with overall vaccination coverage ranging from 21% in low-income countries to 74% in high-income countries. High-income countries are the only countries that have achieved the WHO target of 70% immunization for their entire population. Vaccination coverage among older adults ranged from 33% in low-income countries to 90% in high-income countries. “Vaccination coverage in the elderly population is below the recommended global vaccination target of 100%, and efforts are underway to understand and address why current vaccination programs are not reaching target populations. is needed,” wrote the researchers. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus November, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MScdespite two-thirds of the world's population being vaccinated,There are still large disparities in vaccination coverage" These Concerns About the Equity and Availability of a COVID-19 Vaccine it is clear From the early months when they became available. Add topic to email alert Get an email when new articles are posted Enter your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted . " data-actionsubscribe> subscribe Your request could not be processed. Please try again later.If this issue persists, please contact us customerservice@slackinc.com. back to helio Sources 1/ https://Google.com/ 2/ https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20230203/global-study-highlights-wide-disparity-in-covid19-vaccination-among-older-adults The mention sources can contact us to remove/changing this article