Immunization

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues worldwide, WHO marked World Immunization Week with the theme “vaccines bring us closer.”

According to an online survey of U.S. summer camp leaders, 80% agreed that all campers should be fully immunized but only 50% reported that their camps had a written immunization policy.

The AMA recently updated the CPT code set to include vaccine-specific codes for the COVID-19 vaccines created by Pfizer and Moderna, according to a press release from the medical society.

Despite minimal evidence available, authors of the 2020 ACR juvenile idiopathic arthritis guidelines emerged with nearly 50 recommendations, emphasizing early use of biologics, regular immunizations and reduced reliance on corticosteroids.

Adult vaccination coverage and compliance varies substantially by state, even with adjustments for individual state-characteristics, according to study results presented at IDWeek.

Typhoid conjugate vaccine is safe and effective in children when given with meningococcal A vaccine as part of routine immunization.

According to the authors of a recent paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the “true burden” of SARS-CoV-2 in children may be underrepresented based on a number of factors that make them less likely than adults to be tested.

Few health care personnel in a large academic health system who requested a medical waiver for the influenza vaccine had a true medical contraindication, according to findings in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

A survey of 2,176 parents in the United States showed that 25.8% were hesitant about getting their children vaccinated against influenza — far more than the 6.1% who were hesitant about routine childhood vaccinations.

The Global Vaccine Summit, hosted virtually this week by the government of the United Kingdom, raised $8.8 billion in funding for programs to vaccinate 300 million children by 2025, according to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.