Vaccine Hesitancy

This week, Healio provided live coverage of the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, an annual collaboration between the AAP, Academic Pediatrics Association, American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research.

Despite an increase in adolescent HPV vaccination over the last decade, many parents remain unsure about whether it is necessary to have their children vaccinated, researchers reported in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Vaccines have such a major impact on both individuals and public health. But somehow, as time has gone by, that has been lost.

  Healio spoke with Debra Langlois, MD, pediatrician and clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, about everything providers need to know about COVID-19 vaccination for children.

Over the past year, Healio has covered new discoveries about the COVID-19 vaccine, including evidence of its efficacy, the impact of vaccination during pregnancy, uptake disparities and more.

COVID-19 vaccine equity has improved as the pandemic has progressed, some disparities in access remain prompting WHO to maintain the pandemic’s public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, status.

WASHINGTON — Pediatric influenza vaccination rates remain suboptimal compared with other childhood vaccines, and parents are even less concerned about influenza since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data reported here.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It may be necessary to reframe vaccines to help reverse a downward trend in the rate of routine childhood immunizations, a speaker said at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

For patients with HF, COVID-19 vaccination was associated with lower risk for hospitalization, ICU admission or death compared with those partially or unvaccinated, researchers reported.

SAN DIEGO — Pregnant patients who had more knowledge about COVID-19 and immunization were more likely to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, according to a study presented here.