The program found that vaccination coverage for vaccines including tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), as well as for the meningococcal ACWY vaccine, was generally stable during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there was a notable decrease in the percentage of adolescents...
Focus was placed on about 1,700 teens born between 1993 and 2000—kids who would have received the newer vaccine. This group experienced 450 cases of whooping cough. Overall, Tdap effectiveness for this group was pegged at about 64 percent, but that plummeted to 34 percent two to four years...
Vaccines that protect people against whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are called DTap and TDap. The disease normally kicks in roughly a week after people first get exposed to it by another person. Patients tend to struggle to breathe after experiencing consecutive coughs. The CDC said in...
even though it's intended for ages 11-12, explains Shannon Stokley, MPH, one of the authors of the new CDC report. "They also talk about it differently," she says. Because the HPV vaccine isn't necessary for school entry like the meningitis and Tdap vaccines usually are, doctors may un...
Dr. Carolyn Bridges, associate director for adult immunization at the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Immunization Services Division, said the number of adults "getting their recommended vaccines is still too low, despite modest gains for Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) an...
Who should recieve the new Tdap vaccine? The answers to these and other immunization-related questions are addressed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a number of recently-issued immunization recommendations. Here, by vaccine, is a quick ...