Vaccine Hesitancy

  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.

DENVER — A study found that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy waned over time for caregivers of children with autism, according to researchers at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

As of late February, just 64.5% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and less than half of eligible people had received a recommended booster dose.

Last month, The New York Times reported that the CDC has withheld some of the data it has collected on COVID-19 boosters and hospitalizations.