Racial, Ethnic, and Rural Disparities in US Veteran COVID-19 Vaccine Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Race, ethnicity, and rurality-related disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine uptake have been documented in the United States (US).

Objective

We determined whether these disparities existed among patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest healthcare system in the US.

Design settings participants measurements

Using VA Corporate Data Warehouse data, we included 5,871,438 patients (9.4% women) with at least one primary care visit in 2019 in a retrospective cohort study. Each patient was assigned a single race/ethnicity, which were mutually exclusive, self-reported categories. Rurality was based on 2019 home address at the zip code level. Our primary outcome was time-to-first COVID-19 vaccination between December 15, 20

SUBMITTER: Bernstein E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038675 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature