PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fewer Oregon health care workers have received their influenza shots since COVID-19 first spread throughout the state.

About 54% of the employees surveyed during the 2024-2025 respiratory virus season were vaccinated against the flu during the 2024-’25 season, the Oregon Health Authority’s Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Dashboard shows.

According to the agency, this represents a 11% drop from the previous year — and a 36% drop when compared to the 2019-2020 season.

“This is very worrying,” Dat Tran, medical director of OHA’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program, said in a release. “We are not seeing flu vaccination rates among health care workers keeping pace with flu activity during respiratory virus seasons, even as that activity returns to higher,

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