Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine Effectiveness Among US Older Adults, 2023-2024 Season
Yun Lu, Elizabeth R. Smith, Rowan McEvoy, Merianne Rose T. Spencer, Arnstein F. Lindaas, Hector S. Izurieta, Yike Zhang, Henry T. Zhang, Emma Wagner, Mikhail Menis, Nimish Manoj Naik, Whitney R. Steele, Michael Wernecke, Yoganand Chillarige, Steven A. Anderson, Richard A. Forshee · 2026
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Yun Lu and co-authors estimate, in a 2026 study, how well the new RSV vaccines worked in their first season for older Americans. RSV puts many older adults in hospital and kills a share of them. Two vaccines for those over sixty were approved in 2023. The team used Medicare records from August 2023 to March 2024, following people aged sixty-five and over, and compared hospital stays and deaths tied to the virus.
The starting pool held close to fifteen million unvaccinated beneficiaries. By season's end, about fourteen percent had taken one brand of vaccine and about six percent the other. Those who took a vaccine differed from those who did not: they were better off on income and more likely to have had flu and COVID shots. The study weighs effectiveness overall and by brand, with those gaps in mind.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yun Lu, Elizabeth R. Smith, Rowan McEvoy, Merianne Rose T. Spencer, Arnstein F. Lindaas, Hector S. Izurieta, Yike Zhang, Henry T. Zhang, Emma Wagner, Mikhail Menis, Nimish Manoj Naik, Whitney R. Steele, Michael Wernecke, Yoganand Chillarige, Steven A. Anderson, Richard A. Forshee |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |