Flu Vaccination Rates Affected by Race and Advocacy: Study

Flu vaccination rates are affected by doctor's recommendation and a patient's race, as found and reported by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Researchers found that 90 percent of patients received vaccination if their physician advocated for it compared to 58 percent of patients whose physician did not. Vaccination rates were also higher in whites (93 percent) and Asians (84 percent) than African Americans (62 percent), researchers say, ...

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