Few Seniors Taking RSV Vaccines; Most Adults Decline New COVID-19 Shots: CDC Studies

Studies provide updates on vaccination uptake.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Aug. 25, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Few older adults are taking the recently cleared respiratory syncytial virus vaccines, according to new studies from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Just 9.8 percent of seniors in nursing homes have received one of the shots against the virus, known as RSV, one of the papers showed.