![]() ![]() However, we found large inequities in vaccination rates among younger adults and children, and very large inequities in booster rates for all age groups. ![]() In age-stratified analyses, primary series vaccine coverage was very high among the elderly. We observed wide geographic variation in primary series vaccination and booster rates, with marked inequities by ZIP code-level education, median household income, essential worker share, and racial/ethnic composition. Because age is strongly associated with COVID-19 severity and vaccine access/uptake, we assessed whether observed socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities persisted after adjusting for age composition and plotted age-specific vaccine and booster coverage by deciles of ZIP code characteristics. We mapped variation in ZIP code-level primary series vaccine and booster coverage and used regression models to evaluate the association of these measures with ZIP code-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. We excluded nonresidential ZIP codes and the smallest ZIP codes containing 1% of the state’s population. We constructed population denominators for postal ZIP codes by aggregating census tract population estimates from the 2015–2019 American Community Survey. We obtained public-use data on residents vaccinated and boosted by ZIP code (and by age group: 5 to 19, 20 to 39, 40 to 64, 65+) from MA Department of Public Health, as of October 10, 2022. We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study of primary series vaccination and booster coverage 18 months into the general population vaccine rollout.
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