The U.S. CDC issued a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report today highlighting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended immunization schedule for children and adolescents for 2022.
Found on the CDC’s immunization schedule website, the ACIP recommendations issued on February 18, 2022, include several changes from the 2021 immunization schedule.
Vaccine-specific changes include new or updated ACIP recommendations for influenza, dengue, and COVID-19 vaccines.
Adolescents and Children Immunization Schedules Updated for 2022
Consumers Want Choice of COVID Vaccines
More than one year after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the United States, new data from a recent survey conducted online by The Harris Poll show 73% of consumers would like to see additional COVID-19 vaccines become available.
Currently, the World Health Organization has listed ten different COVID-19 vaccines based on various technologies.
But the U.S. FDA has only authorized/approved three COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 Vaccination Safe During Pregnancy
No differences seen in neonatal and early infant outcomes for offspring exposed, not exposed to vaccine in utero
Younger Moms Most Hesitant to Vaccinating Children Against COVID-19
Findings based on survey of Medicaid enrollees in Florida