Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 35

The CDC reports that an estimated 40,000 people in the United States die annually from pneumococcal pneumonia. Despite this high figure, only 30% of older adults who could benefit from the pneumococcal vaccine are vaccinated (compared to over 50% who receive an influenza vaccine yearly). As an epidemiologist in charge of bringing the pneumonia vaccine to a greater percentage of older Americans, what would you do to convince older adults to be vaccinated