Public still worried about H1N1 vaccine, despite safety tests
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, February 10, 2010
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A recent poll released by the University of Michigan found that 55% of parents are concerned that their children will get H1N1, but 66% of parents are still concerned about the safety of the vaccine.
Furthermore, there was a correlation between what parents worried about and whether or not their child received the H1N1 vaccine. For example, 58% of children were vaccinated if their parents were more concerned about the virus, compared to only a 10% vaccination rate among children whose parents were worried about he vaccine’s safety.
A separate study by the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that 53% of parents either got the vaccine for their children, or plan to get it by the end of February.
However, recent reports from the CDC and California showed the vaccine was safer than contracting H1N1. One in every 10,000 California residents who contracted H1N1 died, whereas only three deaths resulted out of 13 million Californians who got the shot, according to USA Today.
The CDC says that out of 120 million doses, 8,294 “adverse events” were reported, but only 6% of those were considered “serious.”
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