Vaccination News

Delayed hypersensitivity to vaccines is not uncommon but also does not typically contraindicate further vaccination, and patch testing can be used to determine the cause, according to a study published in Allergy & Asthma Proceedings.

In its latest public campaign to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, the AAP launched a new series of videos that address common questions parents have about childhood vaccines.

COVID-19 hospitalization rates among children aged 0 to 4 years in the U.S. were around five times higher during the peak of the omicron wave compared with the peak of the delta wave, researchers reported in MMWR.

Patients who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 were protected against symptomatic reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 variants, including omicron, according to a recent study. It was the top story in infectious disease last week.

Counties in the United States with the highest number of primary care physicians also had the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates, a cross-sectional study showed.

Researchers are exploring a potential link between COVID-19 vaccination and tinnitus.

Citing the emergence of new data, the FDA on Friday announced that it has postponed a meeting scheduled for next week in which an advisory panel would have discussed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged younger than 5 years.

The Democratic governors of several states, including New Jersey and Delaware, announced this week that they will soon lift COVID-19 mask mandates in K-12 schools, joining other states that have already eliminated such measures.

Novavax on Thursday announced that its COVID-19 vaccine was around 80% effective among adolescents aged 12 to 17 years in a phase 3 trial.

The FDA recently approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, which will be branded in the U.S. as Spikevax. The announcement was the top story in infectious disease last week.