Pharmacy Times December 6, 2024
Luke Halpern, Assistant Editor

Jerome Adams, former US surgeon general, discusses the importance of receiving recommended vaccines against influenza and COVID-19 for health care personnel.

Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, FASA, executive director of health equity at Purdue University and the 20th surgeon general of the United States, discussed the urgent need for health care personnel (HCPs) to receive their recommended influenza (flu) and COVID-19 vaccines in an interview with Pharmacy Times®.

The discussion comes as new CDC data indicates that less than 1 in 6 health care workers in nursing homes and hospitals reported getting COVID-19 boosters during the 2023-2024 respiratory season, with an additional swath also not receiving flu vaccines. Additionally, a CDC survey found that health workers expressed little confidence in the...

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