Immunization is one of the most effective public health prevention strategies!
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.
Seven monkeypox cases have been confirmed in the UK this month; no known connection has been found between the latest four cases and the first three. Read more
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
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 …
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 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.
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
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
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.
February 25, 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2022-2023 influenza season in the northern hemisphere. The announcement was made at an information session at the end of a 4-day Information Meeting on the Composition of Influenza Virus Vaccines, a meeting that is held twice annually. The WHO recommends that quadrivalent vaccines for use in the 2022-2023 influenza season in the northern hemisphere contain the following: Egg-based vaccines an A/Victoria/2570/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus; an A/Darwin/9/2021 (H3N2)-like virus; a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus; and a B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus. Cell Read More …
