Immunization Coalition of Delaware
Immunization is one of the most effective public health prevention strategies!
Vaccinate Your Family has shared its 2020 State of the ImmUnion Report. Highlights: The vaccination of children born between 1994 and 2018 will prevent: 419 Million Illnesses 936,000 deaths $1.9 trillion in total societal costs Vaccines given in pregnancy reduce infants’ risk of hospitalization Due to the flu by 70% Due to whooping cough by 91% Read the whole report!
DOVER (February 13, 2020) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is announcing that one of two pending test results for 2019 novel coronavirus (now known as COVID-19) has come back negative. The individual has been discharged from the hospital and is continuing to recover from their underlying illness at home. Test results for one other person are still pending from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and are expected in the coming days. The individual, a New Castle County resident, remains hospitalized until test results are returned. No additional information is being provided about either individual. In Read More …
Every year, Vaccinate Your Family (VYF) writes and distributes a State of the ImmUnion report to help examine the strength of our country’s defenses against vaccine-preventable diseases, and what we can do, as public health advocates and policymakers to make our country stronger and more resilient in the face of emerging health threats. Read the report here: https://www.vaccinateyourfamily.org/join-us-in-support-of-vaccines/make-a-national-impact/state-of-the-immunion-report/
The coronavirus that appeared in Wuhan, China, has a new name: Covid-19. Read more: https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/11/disease-caused-by-the-novel-coronavirus-has-name-covid-19
The declaration gives the WHO certain additional authorities, including the ability to urge countries not to limit travel and trade, though the recommendations do not have to be followed. Read more
Vaccinate Your Family asked immunization coalitions throughout the states to add their name to a letter requesting U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to vaccinate those people – particularly children – in their custody against influenza. The ICD added our name to a list of 54 signatories that was shared with Acting Secretary McAleenan, Secretary Azar, Director Redfield, and Surgeon General Adams. https://www.vaccinateyourfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Immunization-Community-Request-for-the-Vaccination-of-Detainees-in-CBP-Custody-October-2019_final.pdf
September 10, 2019 | CNN | Devan Cole California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed two bills that limit medical exemptions for vaccines of schoolchildren. Under SB 276, California’s Department of Public Health would investigate medical exemptions from doctors who have granted five or more in a year. Read more
Pingali, S.C., Delamater, P.L., Buttenheim, A.M., et al (2019). Findings In this observational study of school-level data from 9 323 315 kindergartners who started attending school between 2000 and 2017, the rate of kindergartners without up-to-date vaccination status decreased from 9.84% during 2013 (before the interventions) to 4.87% during 2017 (after the interventions). Read more
6/24/2019: This issue has been resolved Envision, our DelVAX vendor, has discovered a bug in the latest version of Google Chrome (v75+) that is causing duplicate entry or error messages when entering data into DelVAX. While Chrome and Envision are working on the bug (not going to be a quick fix), it is recommended that you not use Chrome when entering data into DelVAX. Internet Explorer 11, Firefox and Edge are ok to use.
So which is the measles? A minor inconvenience and source of comedy in “The Flintstones,” or a growing, deadly international emergency? If you talk to the official organizations whose solemn mission it is to protect the health of the population, measles outbreaks are a crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have now confirmed more than 700 cases across 22 states in the United States in 2019 alone. That’s despite the disease having been declared eradicated in the U.S. in the year 2000. Read more