AAP News (August 18, 2022) – A bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster targeting the omicron variant could be available next month for children as young as 12 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a guide to help clinicians and jurisdictions prepare for a fall booster campaign. Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have created bivalent […]
The AP (8/17) reports, “The pandemic magnified the fragility of mental health among American youth, who had been experiencing a rise in depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for years, experts say,” but the pandemic also “raised awareness of the crisis and helped de-stigmatize talking about mental health, while also bringing attention to schools’ shortcomings in […]
On behalf of the Alleghany County Immunization Coalitions, PA-AAP and the Pennsylvania Immunization Coalition are excited to announce that we are hiring ONE full-time Coalition Coordinators in order to expand our immunization access and outreach efforts in Pennsylvania. Please see the job duties below and share with your networks. Immunization Coalition Coordinator – Alleghany Immunization […]
Celebrate National Immunization Awareness Month with PAIC! National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages. We highlighted Carol Ferguson from PA Polio Survivors Network as a PAIC vaccine advocate on social media, check out the post on our Facebook or Instagram pages! Social media […]
PatientCare (Jul. 26, 2022) – Monkeypox virus (MPV) cases in the United States numbered 3487 as of July 25, 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They are widely distributed with the 5 largest case counts currently in New York (990), California (356), Illinois (344), Florida (273), and Georgia (268). The CDC says […]
NPR (July 21, 2022) – A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first instance of the virus in almost a decade. The case was confirmed in a resident of Rockland County, about 36 miles north of New York City, the first case since 2013, according to the state and county health […]
(Washington, DC – July 28, 2022) – Chronic underfunding has created a public health system that cannot address the nation’s health security needs, its persistent health inequities, as well as emerging threats, and, was a contributing factor in the inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to this TFAH report, The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on […]
AMA (Aug 1, 2022) – In today’s COVID-19 Update, Novavax vaccine dose, delivery, storage, side effects—and all the details doctors need to know with Sandra Fryhofer, MD, AMA’s liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and a member of ACIP’s COVID-19 Vaccine Workgroup. AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger hosts. Learn more at […]
Fortune (Aug. 4, 2022) – Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the electronic health records of nearly 800,000 U.S. children ages 0 through 17 who had COVID from 2020 through 2022, and compared them with that of nearly 2.5 million children who had not been diagnosed with COVID during the […]
By WPXI.com News Staff July 27, 2022 at 11:19 pm EDT ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — The Allegheny County Health Department is making the monkeypox vaccine available to more people in the county by distributing it in more locations. The county is offering the vaccine at four new locations. Those locations are: Central Outreach Wellness Center, 127 […]