Vaccination

Rather than telling a patient they should get a vaccine, the CDC’s shared clinical decision-making recommendations advise patients to speak to providers about certain vaccines and decide on an individual basis if they should receive them. 

HHS announced that it will give Moderna around $176 million to accelerate the development of a messenger RNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza.

CHICAGO — HPV vaccination rates for children and young adults increased substantially during the 2010s regardless of gender, race or ethnicity, according to findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

After decades of RSV vaccine development, the approvals and recommendations were seen as landmark events in preventive medicine. Uptake was low, however — not unusual for first-year approvals, experts told Healio.

Avian influenza continues to be detected among birds and dairy cows in the United States, raising questions about how to control the more than 2-year-old outbreak.

The CDC on Thursday recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for the 2024-2025 respiratory season, and a newly approved 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for adults.

The CDC’s vaccine advisors voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that everyone aged 75 years or older get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus.

A two-dose series of a hepatitis B vaccine with a CpG adjuvant resulted in a more than 90% response rate among health care workers previously classified as nonresponders, researchers found.

Together, a group of viruses nicknamed “FLiRT” have emerged to become the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants in the country.

SAN ANTONIO — We caught up with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, at the annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology to find out how she got “Hooked on ID.”