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usf health primary care :: Article Creator The VA Adds A Veterans Health Clinic In An East Tampa Neighborhood A new satellite clinic run by the Department of Veteran Affairs in East Tampa is open for veterans to get primary care, mental health support and other services. It's part of a growing partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. Officials from both agencies celebrated the Sabal Park clinic's grand opening during a ceremony on Monday. In the last year, the VA reported nearly 33,000 veterans in Florida signed up for health care. Many of them live in the Tampa Bay region, which has one of the largest veteran populations in the U.S. "It is always a challenge to have capacity meet that ever-growing demand, but it is our obligation to catch up to that demand as much as possible," Dr. Shereef Elnahal, VA Under Secretary for Health, said at the event. Stephanie Colombini / WUS
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US adults who get annual flu shots 25% more likely to get COVID vaccine - CIDRAP

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US adults who get vaccinated against the flu every year were 24.7% more likely to complete a primary COVID-19 vaccine regimen than those who never received the flu vaccine, finds a study yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

Rand Corp. researchers used their American Life Panel, a probability sample of US adults, to analyze self-reported flu vaccine uptake in the 2009 to 2017, 2019-20 (largely prepandemic), and 2021-22 (pandemic) flu seasons. The team also evaluated COVID-19 vaccine status during the latter two seasons.

Of 1,366 survey respondents, 85% were White, 11% were Hispanic, 7% were Black, and 2% were Asian. Average age was 56 years.

Among 358 participants who always received the flu vaccine through 2017, 81.4% to 92.2% still did so two to four seasons later. But of 642 respondents who never received the flu vaccine, only 20.3% received it in 2019 to 2020, rising to 23.5% during the pandemic. Those who always got the flu shot were 24.7% more likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19 than those who never did so.

COVID-19 vaccination was 50% more common in respondents vaccinated against the flu in 2021-22 (90.8% of 944 vs 60.9% of 723; risk ratio [RR], 1.50). And flu vaccine uptake in 2021-22 was 230% higher among COVID-vaccinated participants (57.1% of 1,025 vs 17.3% of 341; RR, 3.30).

COVID-19 vaccinees were much more likely to receive the flu vaccine in 2022 after not receiving it in 2020 (odds ratio [OR], 12.82). Recipients of both vaccines had higher educational attainment, while Democrats were more likely than Republicans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine (OR, 4.43) but not to switch from not receiving to receiving the flu vaccine.

"Most strikingly, among individuals who historically never got the influenza vaccine, those receiving COVID-19 vaccine were substantially more likely to switch toward getting the influenza vaccine," the authors wrote. "This suggests that investing in vaccine acceptance has payoffs beyond the vaccine itself."

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