Vaccine News You Can Use – Supplemental Resources for Family Physicians

Walt Larimore, MD

To supplement his column in this month’s Colorado FP, Dr. Walt Larimore has compiled even more information and resources to support family physicians like you to educate your patients and communities about the importance of vaccines. See his article and CME quiz in the latest issue of the magazine.

MORE VACCINE NEWS:

• VACCINE GENERAL NEWS AND POLICY
  • The lifesaving legacy of vaccines (tinyurl.com/2cfcyz76)
  • Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism (tinyurl.com/yzksf6r9)
  • Autism prevalence is climbing but it’s not due to vaccines (tinyurl.com/3jcsx2sf)
  • Childhood vax rates, a rare health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping (tinyurl.com/4h4z7bvy)
  • How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch (tinyurl.com/2hp9nmdh)
• CANCER
  • New cancer vaccines on the horizon: Renewed hope or hype? (tinyurl.com/5cp6mj6s)
• COVID
  • Vaccine injury claims spiked during COVID, but only 3% of decided claims were eligible for compensation (tinyurl.com/2f4k7m9w)
  • Florida grand jury investigating COVID vaccines found no proof of criminal activity (tinyurl.com/d4sxkv8h)
  • Third COVID vaccine decreases risk for hospitalization, death among older adults for up to four months (tinyurl.com/mpm9rtpf)
  • Three main factors contributed to COVID vaccine hesitancy in black women (tinyurl.com/4xc79x2p)
  • Self-replicating mRNA COVID vaccine approved in Europe (tinyurl.com/39e72728)
• EBOLA
  • Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches in Uganda (tinyurl.com/2n5hy8rk)
• LONG COVID
  • BCG vaccine may protect against long COVID (tinyurl.com/4unf4b6p)
• H5N1 (Bird Flu)
  • Moderna awarded $590M to help accelerate development of mRNA-based bird flu vaccine (tinyurl.com/mt7ccc98)
  • Scientists racing to develop a new bird flu vaccine (tinyurl.com/8rxuj7my)
  • Experts lament ‘anemic’ response to H5N1 (tinyurl.com/9uehy27b)
• INFLUENZA
  • US flu cases surge, vaccinations lag (tinyurl.com/3te9jyhr)
• MMR
  • Study finds parents vaccinated against COVID more likely to vaccinate children with MMR (tinyurl.com/yeys83k7)
• MPOX
  • Mpox cases are increasing in Colorado (tinyurl.com/bdd4n77c)
  • Mpox Clade I in the US should be a wake-up call (tinyurl.com/25rphdhj)
• PERTUSSIS
  • Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade (tinyurl.com/yc8h2mm5)
  • Whooping cough outbreak at Colorado Springs middle school (tinyurl.com/4fhyy8we)
  • Recombinant pertussis booster offers lasting immunity (tinyurl.com/2s4crzre)
• Polio
  • The forgotten toll of polio (tinyurl.com/45fryj2h)
• RSV
  • Older immunocompromised may need adjuvanted RSV vaccine (tinyurl.com/3a3wwfxc)
  • Nirsevimab protected infants and children aged 0-19 months from severe RSV (tinyurl.com/mwrp3dam)
  • Nirsevimab proves highly effective in reducing RSV cases among native children (tinyurl.com/5n8su3aa)
  • FDA advisors say more data needed for mRNA RSV vaccines in young kids (tinyurl.com/yd9m4cwy)
• SHINGLES
  • FDA to consider prefilled syringe version of Shingrix (tinyurl.com/ypr3khe4)