Vaccines play an important role in protecting your health and the health of your family and community. They are one of our best defenses against many infectious diseases and have saved millions of lives.

Preventive care can help you stay healthy and find medical problems early. Medicare offers a number of important preventive services like yearly wellness visits, screenings, and vaccines.

Vaccination among adults has not been prioritized as a public health priority in the U.S. As a result, adult vaccination rates have remained dangerously low and fallen short of national targets, despite the devastating effects of vaccine-preventable disease.