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. 2024 Oct 3;7(10):e2437388. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37388

Table 3. AHRs for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Associated With Common Non-English Primary Languages.

Primary language Patients, No. (%) AHR (95% CI)a
Total (N = 1 001 235) Booster eligible (n = 635 539) Primary series (N = 1 001 235) First-generation booster (n = 628 891) Bivalent booster (n = 635 539)
Hmong 2404 (0.2) 2829 (0.4) 0.81 (0.77-0.85) 0.81 (0.76-0.86) 0.72 (0.66-0.78)
Somali 15 407 (1.5) 5935 (0.9) 0.74 (0.72-0.76) 0.34 (0.32-0.36) 0.30 (0.27-0.32)
Spanish 15 459 (1.5) 8908 (1.4) 0.95 (0.93-0.97) 0.80 (0.77-0.83) 0.70 (0.66-0.73)
Vietnamese 5007 (0.5) 3903 (0.6) 0.92 (0.89-0.95) 0.95 (0.92-0.99) 0.67 (0.63-0.71)
Languages from Eastern Africab 5397 (0.5) 2873 (0.5) 0.97 (0.94-1.01) 0.54 (0.51-0.58) 0.45 (0.41-0.50)
Languages from East Asiac 2548 (0.3) 1961 (0.3) 0.93 (0.89-0.97) 0.99 (0.93-1.04) 0.86 (0.80-0.92)
Languages from Southeast Asiad 4833 (0.5) 3541 (0.6) 0.9 (0.87-0.93) 0.82 (0.79-0.86) 0.87 (0.82-0.91)
Languages from Southern Asia and the Indian subcontinente 1821 (0.2) 1285 (0.2) 0.88 (0.84-0.93) 0.93 (0.87-1.00) 0.85 (0.77-0.93)
Languages from Central and Eastern Europef 1796 (0.2) 639 (0.1) 0.36 (0.34-0.39) 0.62 (0.56-0.69) 0.33 (0.28-0.39)
Languages from Northern Africa and the Middle Eastg 1714 (0.2) 990 (0.2) 0.91 (0.85-0.96) 0.69 (0.63-0.76) 0.78 (0.70-0.88)
Other 2466 (0.2) 1533 (0.2) 0.91 (0.87-0.96) 0.84 (0.79-0.90) 0.88 (0.81-0.96)
Unknown 15 445 (1.5) 7254 (1.1) 0.89 (0.87-0.91) 1 (0.96-1.03) 0.93 (0.89-0.97)
a

English was the reference category. Adjusted for patient sex, age, race and ethnicity, country of origin (US vs non-US), immunocompromised status, and insurance type.

b

Swahili, Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Lingala, Kru, Sango, Dinka, Anuak, Nuer, Bassa, Kissii, Afar, Vai, Greybo, Greyboe, Madi, Mende, Rundi, and Kunama.

c

Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Taishanese, Mongolian, Uzbek, and Krahn.

d

Khmer (Cambodian), Burmese, Thai, Lao, Tagalog, Indonesian, Malaysian (Bahasa), Filipino, Tibetan, Visayan, Tulu, Ceblano, Central Khmer, Ilocano, Malay, Bahasa, Laotian, Cambodian/Khmer, and Karen.

e

Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Sinhala, Malayalam, and Kannada.

f

Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Albanian, Georgian, Croatian, Abkhazian, Greek, Armenian, Bosnian, Azerbaijan, and Moldavian.

g

Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Pashto, Dari, and Hebrew.