Vaccination

Data from two test-negative design studies demonstrated similar vaccine effectiveness with a cell culture-based inactivated influenza vaccine and a standard inactivated influenza vaccine against laboratory-confirmed influenza A/H1N1.

A cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine prevented more influenza-related hospitalizations and ED visits, all-cause hospitalizations and hospitalizations related to serious respiratory events compared with egg-based quadrivalent vaccines.

Public-private partnerships, collaboration among researchers and knowledge of existing coronaviruses have all contributed to the accelerated development of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, according to Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA.

An educational comic book about HPV and HPV vaccine improved college students’ attitudes about completing the vaccination process and their intention to do so within one year.

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.

Greater influenza vaccination uptake correlated with state-level reductions in antibiotic use, according to findings published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

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.

An NIH-funded study will evaluate several drugs prescribed to children with COVID-19, including antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs.