Oct 20, 2022 – A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel voted Thursday to include the COVID-19 vaccine on the list of routine immunizations for adults and children as young as 6 months. The agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously voted to add the coronavirus shot to the 2023 list, […]
10/11/2022 Lancaster, PA –Department of Health Acting Secretary and Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson today joined public health officials from Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health to encourage residents to get their flu shot and COVID-19 vaccination boosters as we enter the 2022-2023 flu season. “This flu season has the potential to be severe, so we […]
Oct. 19, 2022 (STAT) – The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has authorized a booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. Unlike the latest boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which target both the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and the Omicron BA.4/5 variants, the Novavax booster only targets the original strain. The company announced […]
Wednesday, October 12 – Today, CDC’s Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo expanding the use of updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5 through 11 years. This follows the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authorization of updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech for children ages 5 through 11 years, and from […]
The Washington Post (September 19, 2022) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all teenagers and adults get an updated coronavirus booster shot designed to target both the original virus and the omicron variant circulating now. When should you get the omicron booster? Your questions, answered. – The Washington Post
ABC News (September 21, 2022) – New boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds are just weeks away from authorization, the vaccine chief at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Peter Marks, said Tuesday. While primary vaccines are already authorized for children 6 months and older, the FDA has yet to authorize the newly updated booster shots […]
LiveScience (9/19/2022) – A specific type of poliovirus has been spreading in Rockland County, New York, as well as in neighboring areas, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to add the United States to a list of countries(opens in new tab) where similar polioviruses have been detected. The list includes about 30 countries in Europe, Asia […]
CDC (Tuesday, September 13, 2022) – CDC today announced that polioviruses found in New York, both from the case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County and in several wastewater samples from communities near the patient’s residence, meet the World Health Organization (WHO)’s criteria for circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) – meaning that […]
Montgomery County Immunization Coalition: MCIC is partnering with Bethel AME Church of Ardmore and pharmacy partners Walmart, Skippack, Eric’s RX & Horsham on a Bivalent Booster & Flu Vaccine Clinics on October 6, 9, 10, 18, 21, & 29 at the Church. Registration is recommended but walk-ins will be welcome! To sign up:call (610) 642-8966, email bethelardmore@verizon.net, […]
MedPage Today (9/19, Firth) reports “the state of physician wellbeing remained low 2 years into the pandemic,” according to survey results, revealing that “one in three physicians reported feeling hopeless or that they had no purpose.” The results showed that “for the second year in a row, 60% of 1,509 physicians who completed the online […]