As One of Canada’s Top Killers, Why Isn’t Pneumonia Taken More Seriously?
Canada continues to fall short of its targets for vaccinating older adults against pneumonia, even though they are at higher risk of contracting this lung infection — and far more likely to die from it. In the updated version of its 2019 report: As One of Canada’s Top Killers, Why Isn’t Pneumonia Taken More Seriously? the NIA finds that, unfortunately, despite the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) goal of achieving 80% pneumococcal vaccination coverage for adults 65 and older, only 54.7% of this group had received the vaccine by 2023.
