Many, if not most, U.S. infants do not receive flu vaccinations, but the number who are vaccinated has dramatically increased over the past decade.
A report published in Pediatrics, the medical journal affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that in 2011-2012, only 44.7 percent of children between the ages of six months and 23 months were subject to “full influenza vaccination coverage.”
While experts would prefer the rate to increase--and it has in the past four years--the fact that nearly half of infants received a flu vaccine is a radical change from 2002-2003, when only 4.8 percent of infants were vaccinated.
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