Vaccination patterns and up-to-date status of children 19-35 months, 2011-2021.

Introduction: Being up-to-date with all recommended vaccines is needed to protect children from vaccine preventable diseases. Understanding vaccination patterns is needed to develop messaging and strategies to increase vaccination uptake and confidence.

Methods: Data from the 2011 to 2021 National Immunization Surveys was used to assess trends and disparities in vaccination patterns, zero vaccination status, and up-to-date status of U.

Population Attributable Fraction of Nonvaccination of COVID-19 Due to Vaccine Hesitancy, United States, 2021.

Understanding the extent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) nonvaccination attributable to vaccine hesitancy versus other barriers can help prioritize approaches for increasing vaccination uptake. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Research and Development Survey, a nationally representative survey fielded from May 1 to June 30, 2021 (n = 5,458), we examined the adjusted population attribution fraction (PAF) of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy attributed to nonvaccination according to sociodemographic characteristics and health-related variables. Overall, the adjusted PAF of nonvaccination attributed to vaccine hesitancy was 76.

Exclusive and dual influenza and COVID-19 vaccination among U.S. adults and adolescents in 2021.

Introduction: Despite recommendations for influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, studies have documented gaps and disparities in vaccination coverage for adults and adolescents. Understanding the proportion and demographics of those unvaccinated against influenza and/or COVID-19 is important for tailoring appropriate messaging and strategies to increase confidence and uptake.

Methods: Using the 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we assessed the prevalence of four vaccination patterns (exclusive influenza vaccination, exclusive COVID-19 vaccination, dual influenza and COVID-19 vaccination, and neither vaccination) by sociodemographic and other characteristics among adults and adolescents 12-17 years.

Trends in vaccination schedules and up-to-date status of children 19-35 months, United States, 2015-2020.

Objectives: To estimate trends in, and factors associated with, vaccination patterns and up-to-date immunization status of U.S. children by 19 to 35 months of age.

Double plasmonic nanodisks design for electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light.

An analog of plasmonic system for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), in which a small nanodisk with a big side-coupled-nanodisk is directly coupled to the metal-insulator -metal (MIM) waveguide, has been proposed and investigated theoretically and numerically. When the resonant frequencies of the two nanodisks differ not too much, a powerful EIT-like effect can be obtained, and the transparency window can be easily tuned by adjusting the radii of the two nanodisks. The plasmonic device can be used as a high-performance EIT-like filter with transmission over 80% and full width at half-maximum (FWHM) less than 30nm, besides, the novel structure shows a high group index over 355.

Asymmetric band-pass plasmonic nanodisk filter with mode inhibition and spectrally splitting capabilities.

A compact wavelength band-pass filter based on metal-insulator-metal (MIM) nanodisk cavity is proposed and numerically investigated by using Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulations. It is found that the transmission characteristics of the filter can be easily adjusted by changing the geometrical parameters of the radius of the nanodisk and coupling distance between the nanodisk and waveguide. By extending the length of input/output waveguides, the filter shows the resonant mode inhibition function.