Reply to Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]News story on CDC's NIS phone survey re: covid vaccine uptake:
"Despite laws designed to prevent them, New Jerseyans still get a spate of weird, unwanted phone calls from scammers looking to swindle them out of money and sales reps looking to legitimately make money. But one call that fall outside of those areas is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC is calling households as part of its National Immunization Survey, in which it asks a series of questions to assess vaccination coverage in children and COVID-19 vaccinations among adults." https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/is-that-cdc-phone-call-asking-about-covid-and-other-vaccines-legit-check-your-caller-id/ar-BB1ja1nO

This approach can explain why so few people answer the covid vaccine survey. The CDC acknowledged in December that the covid NIS phone survey response rate is less than 25%. That could mean anything ranging from a 1% to a 24% response rate. Where in that range does the response rate actually fall? The CDC doesn't say. However, they do acknowledge that "Nonresponse and social desirability bias could result in overestimation of coverage." https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7251a4.htm?s_cid=mm7251a4_w  That's an understatement. When compared to state date, the NIS phone survey is significantly overstating covid booster uptake and yet the CDC continues to cite its results, including presenting them at last week’s ACIP meeting without acknowledging the limitations of the data. (The NIS-ACM adult covid survey is a recent add-on to NIS and is self-reported, unlike other NIS vaccine surveys which verify responses with provider vaccine records.)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics