Vaccination Campaign

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.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently issued a universal recommendation that all adults aged 19 to 59 years receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

Just half of Medicare beneficiaries received the influenza vaccine during the 2018-2019 season, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

According to a presenter at The Liver Meeting Digital Experience, diagnosis and treatment for hepatitis B virus remains low; therefore, significant increases in treatment are needed to decrease disease burden.

In the days following the emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, it was distributed to institutions nationwide, each of which had different plans for vaccine prioritization among health care workers.