Vaccination News

SEATTLE — Studies continue to show that taking doxycycline after having unprotected sex can prevent STIs in transgender women and men who have sex with men. What has been unclear is whether it also works for cisgender women.

Updated guidelines for hand-washing in medical facilities emphasize healthy skin and nails and easy access to alcohol-based hand sanitizers to reduce health care-associated infections.

A single dose of pegylated interferon lambda used as early treatment in patients with COVID-19 was effective in lowering the total occurrences of hospitalization and ED visits, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found.

Prolonged COVID-19 symptoms, including severe fatigue, were more common among patients infected during the pre-delta period compared with the later delta and omicron periods, researchers found.

There was a sustained decrease in pertussis cases among young infants in the years after maternal Tdap vaccination was introduced in the United States, according to the results of a CDC study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The Biden administration will end the public health emergency and national emergency declarations related to COVID-19 on May 11, according to a White House statement.

Although roughly 77% of older adults globally have been vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers found wide disparities in vaccination rates based on income levels.

More convenient COVID-19 vaccination options could increase uptake among children and adults, according to survey findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Including mid-adults in HPV vaccination efforts is safe and effective, while remaining cost effective, according to a narrative review of existing data.

People who are vaccinated and have previously been infected with COVID-19 had a 97% reduced chance of severe COVID-19 infection year after their last vaccination or infection, researchers determined.