Category: Vaccines

More Illness: Greater Cost

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The Common Health Coalition has published its Spotlight Brief on the cost of Childhood Immunizations. Summary: This brief demonstrates how declines in childhood vaccination will carry substantial human and economic consequences, using measles as a case study. The modeling analysis, conducted by the Yale School of Public Health, finds that a sustained 1% annual decline in MMR vaccine coverage could lead to more than 17,000 measles cases, 4,000 hospitalizations, and 36 preventable deaths each year, while adding billions in avoidable costs across the US health system and economy by 2030. Read the Brief

DPH Reports Measles Exposure at Nemours ED

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DOVER, Del. (Feb.20, 2026) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is reporting a measles exposure at the Nemours Children’s Hospital emergency department in Wilmington on February 18, 2026. Contact tracing is ongoing. DPH will notify persons who were identified as exposed, to confirm whether or not they have been vaccinated against measles before, provide educational resources, and to recommend quarantine and exclusion orders when necessary. DPH encourages people who were exposed to check their vaccination status and watch for symptoms for 21 days until March 11, 2026. Pregnant people — regardless of vaccination status — who may have Read More …

AAP Publishes 2026 Child & Adolescent Immunization Schedule

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The American Academy of Pediatrics published their 2026 Child & Adolescent Immunization Schedule on Monday, January 26, which has been endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), the National Medical Association (NMA), Pedidatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), Pediatric Pharmacy Assocation (PPA), and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). View the Schedule Read More …

The Science Behind the Immunization Schedule

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VUMEDI is a trusted source of information, with content from the most respected key opinion leaders and institutions around the globe. The following video, “The Science Behind the Immunization Schedule: How ACIP Evaluates Safety, Timing, and Risk” was created before RFK, Jr’s restructuring of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices in 2025, and reflects the scientific rigor that stood up vaccine recommendations before the second Trump administration. Recommendations from the current version of ACIP should be double checked against professional society (i.e., AAP, AMA, ACOG) recomendations. Sign up for VUMEDI and view the video here.

Do We Want to Be Like Denmark?

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On December 5, 2025, at the insistence of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (a man with no medical degree, or any degree having to do with immunology or vaccinology), President Trump issued an Executive Order asking the US to align ourselves with peer countries that give fewer vaccines. Denmark recommends 10 vaccines, Japan 14, and Germany 15. Do US Children Receive Too Many Vaccines? RFK, Trump, and others believe that too many vaccines are overwhelming, and can weaken immune systems. These individuals frequently point out that, as children, they only received a few vaccines, and they’re fine. And they’re Read More …

The Myth of an Over-Vaccinated America

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Recently, CIDRAP wrote a great article about the United States, and why we follow the schedule that we do. Check it out here: Viewpoint: The Myth of an Over-Vaccinated America: the US DOES Follow Global Consensus

Vaccine Integrity Project

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Check out the Vaccine Integrity Project, a CIDRAP initiative dedicated to safeguarding vaccine use in the US so that it remains grounded in best available science, free from external influence, and focused on optimizing protection of individuals, families, and communities against vaccine preventable diseases. The Vaccine Integrity Project

Immunization Coalition of Delaware Supports the Use of Hepatitis B Vaccine at Birth

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Friday, December 12, 2025 Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to downgrade its longstanding recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B at birth. The newly formed ACIP has, under the leadership of HHS Secretary RFK, Jr., become decidedly anti-vaccine. ACIP now emphasizes routine hepatitis B screening of pregnant women so that children born to uninfected mothers may have their birth dose deferred. Unfortunately, some women become infected with HBV after their first trimester screening, and some are never screened at all, due to late (or no) prenatal care Read More …

DPH Announces Availability of All Routine Vaccinations at DPH Clinics

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CONTACT: Sean Dooley, Media Relations Coordinator Email: DPHMedia@delaware.gov  DPH ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ALL ROUTINE VACCINATIONS AT DPH CLINICS As flu and respiratory illness season starts, the Division of Public Health (DPH) is announcing that flu, RSV, pneumonia, COVID-19 vaccines, as well as all other routine vaccinations, are available at DPH Clinics for Delawareans six months and older. Routine vaccines on the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) immunization schedules can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html. Residents with insurance may be charged a co-pay at the time of services, depending on their coverage. A list of DPH clinics located within some Read More …

The CDC Does it Again

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On November 19, 2025, RFK Jr. changed a section on the CDC website titled “Vaccines and Autism.” The website now states, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.” You can never prove never. However, 24 studies performed in 7 countries on 3 continents involving thousands of children and costing tens of millions of dollars have all found the same thing. Children who have received the MMR vaccine were not at greater risk of developing autism than those who didn’t receive it. Researchers Read More …