More U. S. adults U. S. They say they have received the updated flu vaccine than the updated Covid-19 shot (42% vs. 27%) since either vaccine must be had in the U. S. U. S. Last summer, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. This is similar to the adoption levels measured for last year’s versions of those vaccines.
The existing flu season has seen a higher number of hospitalizations and deaths due to the disease. At the same time, Covid-19 continues to take a serious fitness check on confident Americans, to a much lesser degree than in recent years.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends getting the flu vaccine and the updated Covid-19 vaccine to protect against severe disease opposite to either disease. They raise that those vaccines are vital for teams of other people in the serious threat of severe headaches from the flu and Covid-19, such as the elderly of adults 65 and more than once.
Pew Research Center conducted this research on the percentage of Americans who say they have received the flu vaccine and the updated Covid-19 vaccine. We surveyed 5,123 U. S. adults from Feb. 24 to March 2, 2025.
All of those who participated in the survey are members of the Center’s American Trends (ATP) panel, an organization of other people recruited through national and random sampling of residential addresses who agreed to conduct surveys regularly. This type of recruitment provides nearly all U. S. adults with the possibility of selection. Interviews were conducted online or over the phone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U. S. adult population across sex, race, ethnicity, party affiliation, schooling, and other categories. Learn more about the ATP methodology.
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Slightly more U. S. adults (53%) say they have not received the flu vaccine or the updated Covid-19 vaccine since last August’s comparison. By comparison, a much smaller percentage (22%) say they have received none of the vaccines.
Only one in five reports to receive a flu shot, but not the updated Covid-19 shot and a very small report on the opposite behavior: only 5% of Americans say they have received the Covid-19 vaccine Covid-19, but not the flu vaccine.
Democrats and employed cars looking to the Democratic Party are more likely than Republicans and Republicans to say they got the flu shot (53% versus 32%). Democrats are also more likely than Republicans to report on the updated COVVI-199 vaccine (42% versus 12%).
Age also issues when it comes to getting those photos. Anywhere, adults over 65 are more likely than their younger opposite numbers to be shot up.
The gap between Democrats and Republicans is wide when contemplating the absorption of the Covid-19 vaccine among 65-year-old Americans, an organization at the highest threat of serious disease. Americans 65 and older, 69% of Democrats say they’ve gotten the current actuality, compared with just 23% of Republicans. Coronavirus vaccines in 2021.
There is also a partisan hole among those over 65 when it comes to the absorption of the flu, it is not so wide. Most Republicans in this age organization (56%) say they have received a flu vaccine; An even higher percentage of the elderly of the Democrats 65 years or more says the same (78%).
Covid-19 vaccine uptake since 2021
The percentage of Americans who say they have won the updated COVID-19 vaccine have not changed since a year ago (27% today compared to 28% at that time). These degrees are very diminished that the absorption of vaccines on other occasions pandemic.
For example, 69% of American adults reported that they were completely vaccinated in August 2021, months after the first circular of COVID-19 vaccines, which have become widely the Americans.
While the most recent versions of COVVI-19 vaccines have been available, a drop in the fall in Americans has selected to download recent plans. Americans have also become less maximum, probably for COVVI-19 as a primary threat of physical aptitude, and grades of hospitalizations and deaths caused through the disease have decreased.
For more data on this year’s influenza vaccine adoption and AVVI-19 vaccine to date, please refer to this chart for influenza vaccine uptake and this chart for adoption of the COVVI-19 update.
Note: Here are the questions used for this analysis, the upper line and the survey methodology.
Giancarlo Pasquini is an associate aimed at science and society at the Pew Research Center.
Alec Tyson is associate director of the Pew Research Center.
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