COVID-19 Vaccinations Among US Veterans with Mental Illness: a Retrospective Cohort Study.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccination; mental health disparities; veterans EN COVID-19 vaccination mental health disparities veterans 3775 3777 3 10/25/22 20221101 NES 221101 Prior Presentation: This work was presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, April 7, 2022. Our study also expands the VA COVID-19 vaccine equity literature as the first to incorporate state data, thereby addressing concerns that potential disparities (arising from differential ability to navigate complicated, online vaccine scheduling systems that were the hallmark of early non-VA vaccination efforts) were being masked. However, to date, no large studies have evaluated COVID-19 vaccination in persons with mental illness outside the VA, preventing comparisons regarding the impact of the VA model of care. [Extracted from the article]