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Immunizations Rates Lagging for Ethnic Elderly, AARP Study Finds
Originally From New America Media Saturday, July 14, 2007 : LOS ANGELES -- Older African Americans and Latinos are less likely to receive flu and pneumonia shots than their white counterparts, according to a new AARP study, reports EGP News Service. Though Medicare offers the vaccines for free, in 2004, two-thirds of whites 65 years and older received flu vaccines, compared with just 45 percent of African Americans and 55 percent of Latinos, according to the study.
Originally From New America Media Saturday, July 14, 2007 : LOS ANGELES -- Older African Americans and Latinos are less likely to receive flu and pneumonia shots than their white counterparts, according to a new AARP study, reports EGP News Service. Though Medicare offers the vaccines for free, in 2004, two-thirds of whites 65 years and older received flu vaccines, compared with just 45 percent of African Americans and 55 percent of Latinos, according to the study.
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