Pediatric ID News

WASHINGTON — Pediatric influenza vaccination rates remain suboptimal compared with other childhood vaccines, and parents are even less concerned about influenza since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data reported here.

The COVID-19 pandemic and H1N1 epidemic were associated with adverse mental health events in adolescents and youth from low- and middle-income countries, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It may be necessary to reframe vaccines to help reverse a downward trend in the rate of routine childhood immunizations, a speaker said at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

The FDA has granted an emergency use authorization for booster doses of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for children and adolescents, both companies announced today.

Myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination is rare across demographic groups and most likely to occur in teen boys in the week after their second shot of a two-dose vaccine, according to a study.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — An antimicrobial stewardship initiative involving more than 130 U.S. hospitals has shown promise — particularly when it comes to treating children for an appropriate duration, researchers reported here.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A study found that having a pre-existing comorbidity was the strongest indicator of risk for severe COVID-19 in children, according to data reported here.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Anne Schuchat, MD, former principal deputy director of the CDC, has a message for pediatricians.

In the United States, COVID-19 vaccinations may have prevented more than 650,000 hospitalizations and 300,000 deaths among Medicare beneficiaries in 2021, according to a new report from HHS.

Experts said a recently published study that found a possible association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and persistent asthma in early childhood did not prove there was a link.