Fewer and Fewer People Can Be Vaccinated Against Flu

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The flu vaccination rate among over 60-year-olds has fallen to a low level since the Corona pandemic, as current data from the Barmer health insurance company show. Only 40.8 percent were vaccinated in 2023, far from the WHO recommendation of 75 percent. Barmer head Straub expresses concern.

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According to data from the health insurance company Barmer, which is available to the editorial network Germany (RND), only 40.8 percent of these insured persons were vaccinated against influenza in 2023. In the first Corona year 2020, the rate was still almost 49 percent. {/mprestriction} Since then, it has been approaching the pre-pandemic level, which had been around 39 percent. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a rate o…