Recommendations In a September 6, 2022 news release, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly recommends flu shots for all children aged ≥6 months with no existing contraindications. Any vaccine approved for the child’s age and health status is appropriate.1 Children may get the in...
Focuses on the expansion of recommendations for the 2002-2003 flu season by federal health officials urging that children under two years of age should also received flu vaccine in the U.S . Reason behind th...
(HealthDay)—Flu vaccines protect children against serious illness, even when the vaccine doesn't match the circulating flu virus, according to a new study that reinforces the importance of flu shots.
Recommendations for when you should get your flu vaccine remain the same – September and October are still considered the optimal times. August vaccinations aren’t recommended unless someone is in their third trimester of pregnancy or for children who will need two doses of the vaccine or those...
In the past, the vaccine was recommended for populations at high risk for contracting influenza including people over the age of 65, anyone with a chronic disease, and children over the age of six months who have underlying medical conditions. The recommendations have expanded in recent years. ...
(IIV4s). High-dose (HD-IIV3) and adjuvanted (aIIV3) inactivated influenza vaccines will be available in trivalent formulations. Recombinant (RIV4) and live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV4; intranasal vaccine) will be available in quadrivalent formulations," ACIP explains in the recommendations...
The AAP recommendations also include: The number of doses of influenza vaccine depends on a child's age and vaccine history. Children 6 months through 8 years of age need two doses when it is the first time they are being vaccinated against influenza. Children 9 years of age and older re...
There’s a readily available vaccine for these kids that is proven effective. If only the #1 killer of kids got even a fraction of the attention that the flu gets. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports this with similar recommendations. Yet, insurance companies don’t cover this vaccine...
"I believe that the vaccine recommendations of young children will be at least reconsidered in all countries that do not vaccinate at this time." Terho Heikkinen's study is published online by the journal, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. ...
"This paper supports the fact that the vaccine is very effective for children under 18 years of age, and vaccinated children are far much less likely to get influenza and far much less likely to die from influenza," Infectious Diseases Society of America spokesperson Aaron Glatt, MD, toldMed...