Immunization - Pediatric Immunization News

• Children and COVID: Weekly Cases May Have Doubled in Early January Although new COVID-19 cases in children, as measured by the AAP and the CHA, remained steady in recent months, data from the CDC suggest that weekly cases took a big jump in early January.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Biden to End COVID Emergencies in May The two national emergency declarations dealing with the pandemic will end May 11. The announcements will mean the end of free vaccines and health services to fight the pandemic.
  WebMD Health News, January 30, 2023
• Flu, RSV on Decline, but COVID Deaths Persist Respiratory illness levels in the US have declined so much in recent weeks that they are approaching numbers usually seen during non-flu season.
  WebMD Health News, January 30, 2023
• Fauci Q&A: On Masking, Vaccines, and What Keeps Him Up at Night In an interview, Fauci spoke to WebMD about his career and his plans for the future.
  WebMD Health News, January 30, 2023
• Long COVID Affecting More Than 33% of College Students, Faculty The median age of participants was 23 years. The study is unique for evaluating mostly healthy, young adults and for its rare look at long COVID in a university community.
  WebMD Health News, January 27, 2023
• FDA Panel Backs Shift Toward One-Dose COVID Shot The FDA's vaccine advisers lent support to the agency's plan to try to simplify future COVID shots, with an aim of having many people get just one dose in the fall.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2023
• Highly Anticipated HIV Vaccine Fails in Large Trial "It's obviously disappointing," Anthony Fauci, MD, told MSNBC, noting that other areas of HIV treatment research are promising. "I don't think that people should give up on the field of the HIV vaccine."
  WebMD Health News, January 19, 2023
• ACG Publishes New Guidelines for Celiac Disease The update emphasizes precision in diagnosis and goal-focused disease management.
  Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2023
• Belimumab for Pregnant Women With Lupus: B-Cell Concerns Remain The largest combined analysis of birth outcome data found no apparent increase in birth defects or pregnancy loss with belimumab.
  MDedge News, January 17, 2023
• CDC Frets Over Further Dip in Kindergarten Vaccination Rates MMR vaccination coverage for kindergartners is at the lowest level in over a decade, according to a new report.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2023
• Alert FDA OKs Tdap Shot in Pregnancy to Protect Newborns From Pertussis The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that women receive a dose of Tdap vaccine during each pregnancy.
  MDedge News, January 12, 2023
• Are Your Patients Using This Anti-COVID Secret Weapon? More and more research shows that physical activity can lower the risk of getting very sick from COVID. Yet, many adults remain inactive.
  WebMD Health News, January 10, 2023
• Asian Children Most Likely to Be COVID Vaccinated A new report shows wide racial and ethnic differences in COVID-19 vaccination of children.
  WebMD Health News, January 09, 2023
• Public Health Agencies Try to Restore Trust, Fight Misinformation As public health departments work on improving their message, the mistrust often reserved for COVID-19 vaccines now threatens other public health priorities, including flu shots and childhood vaccines.
  Kaiser Health News, January 04, 2023
• What's Next for COVID? Here's What to Know Will there be another winter surge? If so, can we minimize it? How big a role might the boosters play in that? Are more mandates coming, along with a return to closed offices and businesses?
  WebMD Health News, January 03, 2023
• Move on From COVID? Child Care Disruptions Continue In the first and even second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-week quarantines and isolations were common for many Americans, especially children. But 9 weeks of missed childcare, nearly 3 years in?
  Associated Press, January 03, 2023
• CDC Reports Uptick in Invasive Strep A Infections These infections are rare but can be deadly, and they can affect adults as well as children.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2022
• Ohio Measles Outbreak Grows, Fueled By Vaccine Hesitancy Most of the children infected were unvaccinated but were old enough to get the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) shot.
  WebMD Health News, December 20, 2022
• Rise of 'Alarming' Subvariants of COVID 'Worrisome' for Winter New study shows four Omicron subvariants can get around antibody protections from vaccines and prior infection.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2022
• COVID Vaccines Saved More Than 3 Million US Lives Since 2020 COVID-19 vaccinations prevented 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States from December 2020 through November 2022.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2022