VIDEO: COVID-19 vaccine, booster rates among younger vs. older children

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So there is a difference between the COVID vaccine rates between younger children and older children. I have data from the CDC as of January 25th. And for our patients less than 2 years of age, only 3.5% have completed their primary series. In patients 2 to 4 years of age, only 5.3% have completed their primary series. In patients 5 to 11 years of age, only 32.5% have completed their primary series. So whether there are a higher completion rate in our 5 to 11 year olds, our vaccination rates are still low. There are no current data on completion of the bivalent booster dose for under five. For our patients, 5 to 11 years of age, only 3.9% have completed their updated bivalent booster dose. When the COVID vaccine came out for our 5 to 11 year olds, which was a year ago, the rates were about 25%, and so that mark really hasn't moved. They were around 30% a year later of completion of the primary series and significantly lower, as I mentioned, for our younger patients.