Articles Tagged With: vaccine
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Vaccine Effectiveness Against Long COVID in Children and Adolescents
Findings consistent with long COVID occur in 4.5% of infected children. COVID vaccination reduces the risk of long COVID by 50% in adolescents and by 24% in children aged 5 to 11 years.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Influenza Vaccine Less Effective in 2021-2022 Season; Every Hospital Needs an ID Doc
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COVID Resurges Amid Pandemic Fatigue, Anemic Vaccine Uptake
As more hospitals nationally go to universal masking for patient care, we see the other side of an incoming problem: Only 19% of adults older than 18 years of age have received the latest vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Why It Is Worth Making Sure All Your Pregnant Patients Receive the Influenza Vaccine
Infants younger than 6 months of age are at risk for severe influenza infections. Vaccination during pregnancy reduces infection and hospitalization risk by nearly 70%.
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection During Pregnancy
Although women who developed respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection during pregnancy had a higher risk of preterm birth compared to those without RSV infection, the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, low birth weight, and small for gestational age fetus were similar between the RSV and placebo groups.
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APIC, SHEA Say Mandate COVID Shots for HCWs
Although the federal requirement that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been lifted, a statement signed by the nation’s leading infection control groups and various other associations emphasizes the importance of mandatory vaccination by individual hospitals.
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CDC Recommends RSV Vaccine for Patients in Third Trimester
The agency says this solution should be administered to patients during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy to protect babies against the dangerous virus, both before and shortly after birth.
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COVID-19 Vaccine, 2023-2024 Formula (Comirnaty, Spikevax)
The newest vaccines target XBB.1.5, which is no longer the dominant circulating variant, but they offer protection against XBB.1.16 and more distant variants (e.g., EG.5.1, FL.1.1.1, and BA.2.86).
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Malaria Vaccination: Dangerous, Dubious, or Ready for Prime Time?
Malaria vaccination with the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine is safe and effective. Implementation of the four-dose vaccination regimen for young children in areas of moderate- and high-intensity malaria transmission is in progress — with the expectation that hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved each year.
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Vaccine Mandates: Critical or Counterproductive?
Testifying before a recent congressional committee on vaccine mandates, John Lynch, MD, MPH, FIDSA, medical director of infection prevention and control at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, extolled the many benefits of COVID-19 immunization compared to the risks of morbidity, mortality, and the lingering chronic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection.