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Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices October 2020 Meeting and COVID-19 Vaccines
Stefanie Cole, BSN, RN, MPH, Immunization Nurse Educator
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met on October 28-30 to discuss numerous vaccines and immunization recommendations and to vote on the 2021 immunization schedules. ACIP voted in favor to approve the proposed changes to both the childhood/adolescent and adult immunization schedules. The new schedules usually get released in February each year.
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In addition to the votes, the ACIP heard presentations on numerous other vaccines, including influenza, pneumococcal, zoster, smallpox and monkeypox, rabies, and COVID-19. The last day of the ACIP meeting was dedicated to discussing COVID-19 topics such as vaccine development and regulation, implementation, safety, allocation and epidemiology, and summarizing the ACIP COVID-19 work group’s interpretation of data and current policy questions.
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The Complexities of SARS-Co-2 Serology
Diagnosing previous infection with respiratory viruses is challenging. Our understanding of individual and population-level immunity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains incomplete and developing reliable serological assays to detect previous infection has been an intense focus of the global scientific effort. For public health planning we need scalable assays validated against large banks of samples from individuals who had proven seasonal (non-severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronaviruses and those who had well characterised symptomatic and asymptomatic confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. False-positive results, due to cross-reactivity with seasonal coronaviruses, are important to avoid, particularly if seropositive-individuals consider themselves immune.
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National Influenza Vaccination Week
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 December 6 - 12
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Healthcare Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Speaker Series
Focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic brought healthcare public health, emergency medical services, and emergency management together to adjust healthcare operations. Topics in this series include the role of pharmacists in the pandemic, adjusting operations to manage patient surge, creating a COVID-19 task force, and meeting supply chain challenges.\
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The Guardian of Public Health is a monthly newsletter from the Bureau of EMS, Trauma and Preparedness (BETP) within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The Guardian aims to provide readers with relevant content on topics that affect the public health of Michigan's citizens and communities. |
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This publication was supported by Cooperative Agreement number 1NU90TP922062-01-00, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.
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