Initial priming with a conjugate vaccine enhances the antibody response to subsequently administered vaccines, informing the currently recommended approach. In the United States, two conjugate vaccines are available: pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)-15 and PCV-20. Vaccine-naive adult patients with can...
CDC issues annual updates in immunization schedules.[7]New vaccines were added in some of the annual updates, eg, Chickenpox (1996), hepatitis A (2000), pneumococcal vaccine (2001). Few vaccines were discontinued from the schedule, eg, the oral polio vaccine (2004). New versions of existing...
In Israel,a 23-year-old mandeveloped multisystem inflammatory syndrome only 24 hours after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Professor Dror Mevorach told Israel media:“We found out that the young man had contracted the coronavirus asymptomatically before he was vaccinated."If we accept the explanat...
The “may receive” the HBV vaccine recommendation for adults 60 years of age and older without known risk factors for HBV is intended to encourage providers to offer the vaccine to this group versus waiting for patients to request it. Further, these recommendations are intended for t...