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Current Issue: Table of Contents
Issue 1779: October 9, 2024
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Top Stories
- CDC updates its SchoolVaxView website with data for 2023–24 school year, documenting another year of decreasing vaccination coverage and increasing exemptions among kindergarteners
- CDC posts 2024–25 COVID-19 Novavax vaccine standing orders templates and at-a-glance resources. Immunize.org updates “Checklist of Current Versions of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Guidance and Clinic Support Tools.”
- “COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among U.S. Adults Aged ≥18 Years—COVID-NET, 12 States, October 2023–April 2024” published in MMWR
- It’s the perfect time for you and your patients to get influenza vaccine; influenza disease activity is low nationally
- Immunize.org’s Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll recognizes 587 institutions, including two new honorees
- “Do Infants Born Soon After Maternal RSV Vaccination Need RSV Preventive Antibody?” Watch the 1-minute answer, part of the Ask the Experts Video Series on YouTube.
- Vaccines in the news
Immunize.org Website and Clinical Resources
Featured Resources
- Medscape offers educational activity on measles in the United States; CE credit available
- Hepatitis B Foundation shares Liver Cancer Awareness Month social media toolkit
- Encountering nervous patients as respiratory vaccination season begins? Use Immunize.org’s suite of clinical resources to offer a positive vaccination experience and ease injection anxiety.
- Help Immunize.org reach more vaccinators through your social media networks. Follow us and share our posts on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn!
- Mighty handy! Immunize.org offers adult and lifetime handheld immunization record cards you can provide your patients.
Upcoming Events
- Tomorrow! Virtual: National Association of County and City Health Officials and CDC host webinar titled “Respiratory Virus Season” on October 10 at 2:00 p.m. (ET).
- Virtual: North Dakota State University hosts webinar titled “Pediatric Respiratory Virus Update: COVID-19, RSV, and Flu” on October 17 and 21 at 1:00 p.m. (ET)
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Editorial Information
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Editor-in-ChiefKelly L. Moore, MD, MPH
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Managing EditorJohn D. Grabenstein, RPh, PhD
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Associate EditorSharon G. Humiston, MD, MPH
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Writer/Publication CoordinatorTaryn Chapman, MS
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Style and Copy EditorMarian Deegan, JD
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Contributing WriterLaurel H. Wood, MPA
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Technical ReviewerKayla Ohlde