Adolescent Immunization Action Week 2023
April 3-7, 2022 Learn more from Unity (United for Adolescent Vaccination).
Category: Vaccines
Improving the Vaccine Experience
Free, 1-hour webinar hosted by ImmunizeOrg, “Improving the Vaccination Experience: Reducing Pain and Anxiety for Children and Adults” at 1 p.m. ET on Feb 28. Anxiety about needles and injections affects as many as 2 out of 3 children and 1 out of 4 adults; this anxiety can contribute to dreading, delaying, or avoiding vaccinations, even when the importance of preventing illness is understood. The good news is that there are safe, effective, and practical steps that those who administer vaccines and vaccine recipients or their caregivers can take to reduce vaccination-related pain and anxiety and increase confidence in vaccination. Read More …
National Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents, 2021
The CDC has just released the National Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents Aged 13-17 Years, 2021. “Among adolescents aged 13–17 years in 2021, HPV vaccination coverage (≥1 dose and HPV vaccine up to date) increased. Coverage with ≥1-dose Tdap and ≥1-dose MenACWY remained high. Among age-eligible adolescents, MenACWY booster dose coverage increased. Analyses of the potential COVID-19 pandemic effect among adolescents born in 2008 show a concerning decrease in ≥1 MenACWY and ≥1 Tdap dose coverage.” Read more
CDC Raises Delaware’s COVID-19 Community Levels to High in All Counties
CDC RAISES DELAWARE’S COVID-19 COMMUNITY LEVELS TO HIGH IN ALL COUNTIES; DPH ENCOURAGES MASKING IN INDOOR PUBLIC SETTINGS AND VACCINATION DOVER, DE (July 29, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised Delaware’s COVID-19 community levels to the High category (red) in all three counties on July 28, 2022. As a result, the Division of Public Health (DPH) is asking Delawareans to follow the CDC’s key strategies at this level of community spread: · Wear a well-fitting mask in indoor public settings, regardless of vaccination status. · Stay home if you are sick and get tested if you have symptoms or Read More …
DPH Encourages Eligible Delawareans to Get Boosted Now
DOVER, DE (July 15, 2022) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) reports that COVID-19 cases experienced an uptick in the daily 7-day average for the percentage of positive tests since the previous monthly COVID-19 update released on June 17, 2022. Since that time, Delaware has also exceeded 3,000 COVID-related deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 Community Levels data tracker, which was last updated on June 14, case levels in Kent County are considered high, while case levels in New Castle and Sussex Counties are listed as medium. Many people are expressing concerns about getting vaccinated Read More …
Five Pandemics Lead to One Million Deaths
There have really been five pandemics, J. Emory Parker shows us in grim data visualizations, and SARS-CoV-2 still leaves us with mysteries to be solved and promises to better prepare for the next pandemic. What was once a nagging suspicion has turned into solid certainty that it didn’t have to be this bad.
As HPV Vaccination Rose, Disease Prevalence Fell
In the first 12 years of an HPV vaccination program in the U.S., prevalence of the most common sexually transmitted infection fell among vaccinated and unvaccinated females as well as males, new research shows, hinting at herd immunity. Read more
FDA Limits J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
The FDA yesterday set limits on Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine because of the risk of a clotting disorder discovered weeks after the vaccine was first put into use in spring 2021. The agency said its review of the available data on the risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia — or TTS — suggested limiting access to the vaccine is warranted. The condition, though rare, can be fatal. The single-dose vaccine will now be available only to adults 18 and older who would not otherwise agree to be vaccinated or who cannot take one of the other available vaccines for medical Read More …
Community Health Worker Program
The ICD is engaged in the Delaware Academy of Medicine/Delaware Public Health Association’s COVID-19 Community Health Worker (CHW) Initiative. This initiative aims to address persistent health disparities and vaccine hesitancy in Pennsylvania and Delaware by offering support and resources to vulnerable and under-resourced populations, and to newly identified populations eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more
Adolescent Immunization Action Week
Adolescent Immunization Action Week is here (April 4-8)! AIM is partnering with Unity Consortium to spread the word about the importance of adolescent immunization vaccination. This toolkit provides a video, messaging, webinar registration, graphics, and more to help raise awareness for this important cause.