CDC reveals massive vaccine apathy with over 80% of adults and 90% of children unvaccinated for 2025–26.
Vaccination Trends:
Reported on Friday, December 19, 2025
- The percent of the population reporting receipt of the 2025─26 COVID-19 vaccine is 7.5% (6.0-9.0) for children and 15.8% (14.9-16.7) for adults age 18+, including 32.1% (30.2-33.9) among adults age 65+.
- The percent of the population reporting receipt of an influenza vaccine is 42.3% (39.9-44.7) for children and 42.2% (40.9-43.5) for adults age 18+, including 63.2% (60.6-65.9) among adults age 65+.
- The percent of adults age ≥75 reporting ever receiving an RSV vaccine is 42.0% (39.1-44.9).
- Additional data on vaccination trends, including comparison with previous seasons, are available at RespVaxView.
COVID-19 Vaccine
COVID 19-vaccines are effective at protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying. Vaccination remains the safest strategy for avoiding hospitalizations, long-term health outcomes, and death.
CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for people ages 6 months and older, with discussion of the benefits of vaccination with a health care provider. The FDA authorized the COVID-19 vaccines for the 2025-26 fall and winter virus season in August 2025.
COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States
Weekly cumulative percent of adults and children vaccinated with the 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine. Refer to data notes for more details.
95% confidence intervals for the point estimates are presented at the data.cdc.gov link below.
Data last updated on December 18, 2025 and presented through December 13, 2025. View this dataset on data.CDC.gov.
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/vaccination-trends.html