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Current Issue: Table of Contents
Issue 1729: December 6, 2023
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- It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week. Lagging vaccination rate means millions more are unprotected so far this season. Encourage vaccination using CDC’s digital media toolkit.
- “Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Received an Influenza Vaccination during the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Race and Ethnicity—National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022” published in MMWR
- Influenza-like-illness activity is high in states across the country and rising nationwide. NIVW is the time to reach the unvaccinated.
- Be alert to potential for error: CDC receives reports of RSV vaccines for adults being mistakenly administered to infants
- “SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology and COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness among Infants and Children Aged 6 Months–4 Years—New Vaccine Surveillance Network, United States, July 2022–September 2023” published in MMWR
- “The National Wastewater Surveillance System’s Centers of Excellence Contributions to Public Health Action during the Respiratory Virus Season—Four U.S. Jurisdictions, 2022–23” published in MMWR
- Immunize.org updates two Questions and Answers handouts
- “How to Administer Multiple Intramuscular Vaccines to Adults during One Visit”: watch the 3-minute video, part of the Improving the Vaccination Experience Video Series on YouTube
- Immunize.org’s Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll features three renewing honorees
- Vaccines in the news
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