40% of Americans Don ’t Plan to Get a Flu Shot. They’re Putting Others at Risk

Each year, doctors and public health officials urge virtually every American to get a flu shot. But a new poll suggests that many people don't plan to follow that advice. As of mid-November, 43% of American adults said they had already received a flu shot, according to a nationally representative survey of 1,200 people conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent research institution. But the majority of people who hadn't been vaccinated already — 41% of the total sample — said they weren't planning to get the shot at all. Fourteen percent said they were planning to get a flu shot but had not done so yet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends flu shots for almost everyone older than six months of age, with very few ...

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