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September 9, 2022
Order sets have been added to all COVID-19 vaccine providers.
Delivery times for boosters are taking longer than normal. If your order is approved, please look for a tracking number to know when you order has shipped. Delivery dates are not certain, please keep this in mind when scheduling appointment and planning for clinics.
Until bivalent booster vaccines arrive, patients can be referred to vaccines.gov, their local pharmacy. Many commercial pharmacy chains such as Safeway, Costco, Fred Meyers, Walgreens, and Walmart have likely received their booster vaccines. Patients may also call the Alaska COVID-19 Helpline for help finding vaccine appointments @ (907)-646-3322 M-F 9:30am-6:30pm.
While additional Pfizer doses are available for ordering, Moderna ordering is paused until additional allocations are available. If you already have an approved order for Moderna, orders will be fulfilled as quickly as possible. Additional Moderna doses are not anticipated until the week of September 19.
COCA Call: Recommendations for Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Doses in People Ages 12 Years and Older
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM AKST
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2022/callinfo_091322.asp
During this COCA Call, presenters will discuss CDC’s new guidance on bivalent COVID-19 booster doses for people ages 12 years and older, including those who are moderately or severely immunocompromised.
Materials from 9/6 Alaska DOH Pop-Up webinar on updated boosters:
Trainings from manufacturers
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Moderna is providing educational webinars every Wednesday in September to detail the Moderna COVID-19 Bivalent Vaccine Booster.
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Pfizer training sessions are available for bivalent boosters.
CDC Resources
Moderna Resources
Pfizer resources
The FDA authorized and CDC recommended an updated COVID-19 booster for people ages 12 and older two months following either primary vaccination or their most recent booster dose. These updated mRNA boosters are designed to provide increased protection against the currently circulating variants.
The original Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized as booster doses for people ages 12 years and older. Appointments for monovalent Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna boosters in people 12 years of age and older must be rescheduled for when locations have the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines available.
For those ages 5 through 11, a booster vaccine is recommended if it’s been 5 months since receiving the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or 2 months since receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
At-A-Glance COVID-19 Vaccination Schedule (CDC)
Monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized as a booster dose for individuals 12 years of age and older. As a result, providers and jurisdictions may only use this monovalent vaccine in a primary series. Providers may suddenly find themselves with a bolus of primary dose vaccine and a need to order the new bivalents. Over the next few months, larger than typical doses of primary series COVID-19 vaccine may expire and need to be disposed of according to state and local regulations. Remember to check the expiration dates of your inventory regularly using the manufacturer expiry look up pages.
We encourage you to continually monitor your COVID-19 vaccine inventory to help reduce administration errors. Dispose of expired vaccine according to state and local regulations.
List of Expiry Look-up Pages
You may also refer to the CDC Operational Guidance on Identification, Reporting and Disposal of COVID-19 Vaccine. The Operational Summary for the identification, disposal, and reporting of waste webpage provides information to help awardees and immunization managers identify, handle, dispose of, and report waste in COVID-19 vaccination programs.
Flu ordering for enrolled providers is open! Please only order what you need for the next two months; inventory is limited. Two epi bulletins are now published for the 2022-23 influenza season and are listed below.
Ordering Influenza Vaccine
Use the Flu 2022-2023 order set in VacTrAK
- Order in doses (not boxes)
- Order enough to get you started for the season, approximately 2 months
- Consider refrigerator space
- Review last season’s data by pulling a Vaccine Administered report
- Continue ordering as much and as often as needed throughout the season
AK DOH Influenza Epi Bulletins:
If you have questions, please email the vaccinedepot@alaska.gov
Instructions for VacTrAK inventory management are available to assist with documenting doses administered and wastage. Please review the instructions here.
Digital immunization records will soon be available to the public through Docket®. This is a mobile application that searches VacTrak using basic demographic information (name, date of birth, and sex) to display immunization record information on a mobile device. Phone number or email verification is required. The app displays vaccination history to anyone with a record in VacTrak whose identity has been verified through the Docket® app and currently supports retrieval of immunization records and a QR code for COVID-19 vaccinations. We anticipate launching this in October!
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