Flu Vaccination Rates Dropping in States With Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccinations spread to public health perception

A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in a file image. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Researchers are seeing a divide in adult flu vaccine uptake between states, with low flu vaccination uptake in states that had low COVID-19 vaccination rates, whilst states that had high COVID-19 vaccination have increased flu vaccine uptake.

The study by the University of California suggests that attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccinations have also spilled over to the public’s general health behaviors, demonstrated by the low uptake of influenza in low COVID-19 vaccinated states.