The Washington Post (September 19, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all teenagers and adults get an updated coronavirus booster shot designed to target both the original virus and the omicron variant circulating now. When should you get the omicron booster? Your questions, answered. – The Washington Post
ABC News (September 21, 2022) – New boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds are just weeks away from authorization, the vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, said Tuesday. While primary vaccines are already authorized for children 6 months and older, the FDA has yet to authorize the newly updated booster shots […]
LiveScience (9/19/2022) – A specific type of poliovirus has been spreading in Rockland County, New York, as well as in neighboring areas, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to add the United States to a list of countries(opens in new tab) where similar polioviruses have been detected. The list includes about 30 countries in Europe, Asia […]
CDC (Tuesday, September 13, 2022) – CDC today announced that polioviruses found in New York, both from the case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County and in several wastewater samples from communities near the patient’s residence, meet the World Health Organization (WHO)’s criteria for circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) – meaning that […]
MCIC is partnering with Elmwood Park Zoo, ACLAMO, Norristown NAACP, Community Hero Action Group, & Giant Pharmacy on a Say Boo to the Flu Vaccine Clinic at the zoo on Saturday, October 1 from 10am-1pm. Guests who register for the flu vaccine will receive FREE zoo admission. Walk-ups are accepted, appointments are prioritized. Register here. MCIC is partnering with Gotwals […]
MedPage Today (9/19, Firth) reports “the state of physician wellbeing remained low 2 years into the pandemic,” according to survey results, revealing that “one in three physicians reported feeling hopeless or that they had no purpose.” The results showed that “for the second year in a row, 60% of 1,509 physicians who completed the online […]
MedPage Today (9/19, Hein) reports, “Early use of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in children hospitalized with influenza was associated with better outcomes, according to a multicenter propensity score-weighted analysis.” Among the “over 55,000 children, treatment with oseltamivir upon arrival or on day 1 was linked with a shorter length of stay compared with treatment on day 2 […]
Erie News Now (Friday, September 2nd 2022) – Vaccine providers across Pennsylvania are prepared to begin administering updated COVID-19 booster vaccines as soon as they receive them, according to the state Department of Health on Friday. The vaccines provide additional protection against the original coronavirus and Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5. The Centers for Disease […]
See below, events across PA in September: The South Central MRC has a scheduled vaccine education/clinic event scheduled for September 21st, at a 50+ EXPO, held at Spooky Nook Sports Complex, near Lancaster. Montgomery County Immunization Coalition: MCIC is partnering with Bethel AME Church of Ardmore and Eric’s RX Shoppe on a Pfizer Variant Booster […]
The Washington Post (8/26, A1, Diamond) reported that following “three months of surging monkeypox cases, the worldwide outbreak may have peaked, amid evidence that” individuals are “curbing risky sexual behaviors and more people are getting vaccinated against a virus that spread by close contact.” New cases in the U.S. “have fallen by about 25% in […]
LA Times (AUG. 28, 2022) – The next generation of COVID-19 booster shots — tailored specifically to combat the super-infectious family of Omicron subvariants — could roll out early next month. The long-in-the-works offering would mark an ambitious new phase in the nation’s vaccination campaign and, officials say, give residents another option to protect themselves ahead of […]
(Sun, August 28, 2022) – The monkeypox outbreak is showing early signs of waning, with some areas of the country — and world — reporting fewer cases on average. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Yahoo Finance Friday that the agency has noted the decline in some regions, but that overall cases are still rising. […]
Aug 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday signed off on the use of Novavax Inc’s (NVAX.O) COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 through 17. The recommendation follows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization for the vaccine for the age group last week. The protein-based vaccine received emergency use […]
The AP (8/23) reports, “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as Omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.” This updated analysis of “COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine” found “21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots – […]
The AP (8/24) reports, “The number of coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 15% in the past week while new infections dropped by 9%, the World Health Organization said Wednesday” in “its latest weekly assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic.” WHO “said there were 5.3 million new cases and more than 14,000 deaths reported last week,” […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Public Health Messaging, Patient Outreach Should Focus On Younger People With Lower Income, Educational Attainment, Study Says PatientEngagementHIT (8/24) reports, “As more COVID-19 vaccine boosters become available, public health messaging and patient outreach should focus on younger folks with lower incomes and lower educational attainment, according to a study published in JAMA […]
AAP News (August 18, 2022) – A bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster targeting the omicron variant could be available next month for children as young as 12 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a guide to help clinicians and jurisdictions prepare for a fall booster campaign. Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have created bivalent […]
The AP (8/17) reports, “The pandemic magnified the fragility of mental health among American youth, who had been experiencing a rise in depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for years, experts say,” but the pandemic also “raised awareness of the crisis and helped de-stigmatize talking about mental health, while also bringing attention to schools’ shortcomings in […]
On behalf of the Northeast, Central and Alleghany County Immunization Coalitions, PA-AAP and the Pennsylvania Immunization Coalition are excited to announce that we are hiring TWO full-time Coalition Coordinators in order to expand our immunization access and outreach efforts in Pennsylvania. Please see the job duties below and share with your networks. Immunization Coalition Coordinator […]
Celebrate National Immunization Awareness Month with PAIC! National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. We highlighted Carol Ferguson from PA Polio Survivors Network as a PAIC vaccine advocate on social media, check out the post on our Facebook or Instagram pages! Social media […]
PatientCare (Jul. 26, 2022) – Monkeypox virus (MPV) cases in the United States numbered 3487 as of July 25, 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They are widely distributed with the 5 largest case counts currently in New York (990), California (356), Illinois (344), Florida (273), and Georgia (268). The CDC says […]
NPR (July 21, 2022) – A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first instance of the virus in almost a decade. The case was confirmed in a resident of Rockland County, about 36 miles north of New York City, the first case since 2013, according to the state and county health […]
(Washington, DC – July 28, 2022) – Chronic underfunding has created a public health system that cannot address the nation’s health security needs, its persistent health inequities, as well as emerging threats, and, was a contributing factor in the inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to this TFAH report, The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on […]
AMA (Aug 1, 2022) – In today’s COVID-19 Update, Novavax vaccine dose, delivery, storage, side effects—and all the details doctors need to know with Sandra Fryhofer, MD, AMA’s liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and a member of ACIP’s COVID-19 Vaccine Workgroup. AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger hosts. Learn more at […]
Fortune (Aug. 4, 2022) – Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the electronic health records of nearly 800,000 U.S. children ages 0 through 17 who had COVID from 2020 through 2022, and compared them with that of nearly 2.5 million children who had not been diagnosed with COVID during the […]