Category: Vaccines

CDC Raises Delaware’s COVID-19 Community Levels to High in All Counties

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 

DJPH: Vaccine Preventable Disease

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The latest issue of the Delaware Journal of Public Health focuses on Vaccine Preventable Disease. Guest Editors Omar Khan, MD, MHS and Stephen Eppes, MD have curated content about current vaccine recommendations, travel vaccines, vaccines specific to certain viruses, vaccine hesitancy, and vaccination exemptions.  The journal is open-source, and free to all.  Check it out here

Vaccines a Poor Match for 2021-2022 Flu Season

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Preliminary CDC estimates released yesterday show flu vaccines were not a good match for the most common strain circulating through the current 2021-2022 flu season, which peaked in December. Shots did not reduce the risk of mild or moderate flu caused by the H3N2 virus, the analysis concludes. Read more

Communication is Bioactive and Systemic

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On February 24, 2022, ChristianaCare Medical Grand Rounds welcomed John Parrish-Sprowl, Ph.D. Dr. Parrish-Sprowl’s talk, Communication is bioactive and systemic: The AIMS approach to vaccine hesitancy, can be viewed below.