{"id":201477,"date":"2024-12-13T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/kids-flu-vaccination-rates-continue-to-plummet-this-season"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:12:12","slug":"kids-flu-vaccination-rates-continue-to-plummet-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/kids-flu-vaccination-rates-continue-to-plummet-this-season","title":{"rendered":"Kids\u2019 Flu Vaccination Rates Continue to Plummet This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kids-flu-vaccination-rates-continue-to-plummet-this-season2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just 37% of kids have gotten flu shots this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/fluvaxview\/dashboard\/index.html\"> new CDC data<\/a>. That\u2019s down seven percentage points, from 44% of kids getting shots by this same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>The data concerns health officials, especially since a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/whats-new\/2023-2024-pediatric-deaths-200.html\"> record<\/a> number of children died of flu-related causes last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, 55% of kids got vaccinated against the flu during the 2023\u201324 flu season, which was the lowest rate in 12 years, a CDC official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/flu-cases-rising-kids-vaccine-rates-low-cdc-rcna177336\"> NBC News<\/a>. Vaccination rates have fallen for a variety of childhood vaccines in recent years. The trend has been blamed on vaccine fatigue after the pandemic as well as misinformation about the safety of childhood shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 37% of kids have gotten flu shots this year, according to new CDC data. That\u2019s down seven percentage points, from 44% of kids getting shots by this same time last year. The data concerns health officials, especially since a record number of children died of flu-related causes last year. Ultimately, 55% of kids got [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}