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Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves
Seasonal flu vaccination is one of the most important strategies for preventing influenza. The attitude towards flu vaccination in light of the COVID-19 pandemic has so far been studied in the literature mostly with the help of surveys and questionnaires. Whether a person chooses to be vaccinated or...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8003130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33803755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030276 |
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author | Di Pumpo, Marcello Vetrugno, Giuseppe Pascucci, Domenico Carini, Elettra Beccia, Viria Sguera, Anna Zega, Maurizio Pani, Marcello Cambieri, Andrea Nurchis, Mario Cesare D’Ambrosio, Floriana Damiani, Gianfranco Laurenti, Patrizia |
author_facet | Di Pumpo, Marcello Vetrugno, Giuseppe Pascucci, Domenico Carini, Elettra Beccia, Viria Sguera, Anna Zega, Maurizio Pani, Marcello Cambieri, Andrea Nurchis, Mario Cesare D’Ambrosio, Floriana Damiani, Gianfranco Laurenti, Patrizia |
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description | Seasonal flu vaccination is one of the most important strategies for preventing influenza. The attitude towards flu vaccination in light of the COVID-19 pandemic has so far been studied in the literature mostly with the help of surveys and questionnaires. Whether a person chooses to be vaccinated or not during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, speaks louder than any declaration of intention. In our teaching hospital, we registered a statistically significant increase in flu vaccination coverage across all professional categories between the 2019/2020 and the 2020/2021 campaign (24.19% vs. 54.56%, p < 0.0001). A linear regression model, based on data from four previous campaigns, predicted for the 2020/2021 campaign a total flu vaccination coverage of 30.35%. A coverage of 54.46% was, instead, observed, with a statistically significant difference from the predicted value (p < 0.0001). The COVID-19 pandemic can, therefore, be considered as an incentive that significantly and dramatically increased adherence to flu vaccination among our healthcare workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-80031302021-03-28 Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves Di Pumpo, Marcello Vetrugno, Giuseppe Pascucci, Domenico Carini, Elettra Beccia, Viria Sguera, Anna Zega, Maurizio Pani, Marcello Cambieri, Andrea Nurchis, Mario Cesare D’Ambrosio, Floriana Damiani, Gianfranco Laurenti, Patrizia Vaccines (Basel) Brief Report Seasonal flu vaccination is one of the most important strategies for preventing influenza. The attitude towards flu vaccination in light of the COVID-19 pandemic has so far been studied in the literature mostly with the help of surveys and questionnaires. Whether a person chooses to be vaccinated or not during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, speaks louder than any declaration of intention. In our teaching hospital, we registered a statistically significant increase in flu vaccination coverage across all professional categories between the 2019/2020 and the 2020/2021 campaign (24.19% vs. 54.56%, p < 0.0001). A linear regression model, based on data from four previous campaigns, predicted for the 2020/2021 campaign a total flu vaccination coverage of 30.35%. A coverage of 54.46% was, instead, observed, with a statistically significant difference from the predicted value (p < 0.0001). The COVID-19 pandemic can, therefore, be considered as an incentive that significantly and dramatically increased adherence to flu vaccination among our healthcare workers. MDPI 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8003130/ /pubmed/33803755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030276 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Di Pumpo, Marcello Vetrugno, Giuseppe Pascucci, Domenico Carini, Elettra Beccia, Viria Sguera, Anna Zega, Maurizio Pani, Marcello Cambieri, Andrea Nurchis, Mario Cesare D’Ambrosio, Floriana Damiani, Gianfranco Laurenti, Patrizia Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title | Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title_full | Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title_fullStr | Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title_full_unstemmed | Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title_short | Is COVID-19 a Real Incentive for Flu Vaccination? Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves |
title_sort | is covid-19 a real incentive for flu vaccination? let the numbers speak for themselves |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8003130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33803755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030276 |
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