Vaccination News

Misinformation and disruptions in care during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to troubling trends in vaccine uptake among children in the United States, according to Sterling Ransone, MD, FAAFP, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Long COVID increases children’s risk for several serious conditions, although the conditions remain rare, according to findings reported in MMWR.

Exposure to young children was associated with less severe COVID-19 illness among adults, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Last week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

President Joe Biden tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 again on Monday, the White House announced — the third day in a row he tested positive after testing negative for 3 days last week.

We spoke with Kristina Bryant, MD, hospital epidemiologist at Norton Children’s Hospital and professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Louisville, regarding symptoms, misconceptions and ways to protect children against monkeypox.

Bavarian Nordic announced today that it has received approval from the FDA to manufacture its monkeypox vaccine Jynneos at the company’s fill and finish facility in Denmark.

Health officials advised the medical community to be on alert after a case of vaccine-derived polio was identified in a resident of Rockland County, New York.

A recent study published in Frontiers in Genetics found that even mild cases of COVID-19 may speed up the body’s rate of aging, although receiving a COVID-19 vaccine might reverse these effects.

In a recent survey, 42% of women said they experienced heavier menstrual bleeding following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.