BERLIN, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Tuesday extended its general COVID-19 vaccination recommendation to children between the ages of 5 and 11 with only one vaccine dose. The committee's official recommendation h...
(HealthDay)—Adults who receive a provider recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination are more likely to have received one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccine, according to research published in the Dec. 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionMorbidity and Mortality Weekly...
One of the more surprising aspects of Monday’s announcement was that a Covid-vaccine-related recommendation would come from the White House ahead of the FDA issuing EUA for at least one booster shot, and any guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Though theTimesarticle did no...
23 vaccines had advanced to Stage 3 clinical trials1and more than a dozen had been approved in multiple countries2. The BNT162b vaccine from Pfizer–BioNTech, for example, has been approved in about 90 countries, while the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine from Oxford–AstraZeneca...
A recommendation from healthcare personnel (HCP) is a strong predictor of vaccination. This study aimed to measure how HCP vaccine attitudes and recommendations changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. HCP were surveyed in January 2023 using a double opt-in network panel. Survey responses were ...
The alert follows the agency's move over the summer to bolsterits recommendationthat people who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing a growing amount of evidence demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of the shots to protect vulnerable parents and th...
Members of The Lancet's Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, and Demand in the U.S. have issued their recommendations for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake, focusing on one key factor: individual intention to receive the vaccine.
Only one member of the 14-member panel voted against the universal recommendation. "I just want to be clear that I am not against this vaccine. The data do look great," ACIP member Dr. Pablo Sanchez said, following his dissenting vote. Sanchez voiced concern over what he saw as "extremel...
It is the first booster vaccine approved for under-18s in Australia, with 16 and 17-year-olds eligible for a third vaccine dose three months after the second. "This recommendation is based on a review of COVID-19 epidemiology, disease burden, health benefits directly to individuals and indire...
“We had to weigh the possible damage of a fourth dose versus what benefit it could bring based on an educated guess,” he noted. “We believe that the biggest failure could be that the fourth vaccine is not helpful, but the biggest success could be to reduce the risk of infection for...