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While the onset and duration of RSV season may vary throughout the United States, nirsevimab is typically administered October through the end of March in most of the continental US.
Healthcare providers should have stopped administration of nirsevimab as of March 31. Nirsevimab is no longer available for ordering through the Childhood Vaccine Program as of March 14, 2025.
Remaining inventory of nirsevimab is viable until its expiration date. Product should continue to be safely stored refrigerated between 36°F to 46°F (2°C to 8°C) and can be used when administration resumes next season. More information can be found here: Frequently Asked Questions About RSV Immunization with Monoclonal Antibody for Children 19 Months and Younger | CDC
Please don't hesitate to contact us at WAChildhoodVaccines@doh.wa.gov for any questions or for assistance managing your nirsevimab inventory.
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine is no longer available to order. The last lot of the season will be expiring 4/30/25. Please continue to use and appropriately store any remaining stock you may have until expiry.
Spring Vaccine Choice has been moved to June 2025. Please keep watch for more information to be shared in future Vaccine Blurbs.
Enrolled providers have the opportunity to select the brand and presentation of vaccine they receive if there is more than one option for a vaccine type. Vaccine choice occurs when a provider first enrolls in the CVP and then twice a year thereafter.
This will now take place during June and December each year. After the Vaccine Choice period ends, it can take up to a month for order sets to be updated in the IIS.
Please join us Thursday, April 24th, 2025 for our next CVP Training Series. This month we will be showing providers how to verify that vaccines are viable upon delivery and what to do if there is an issue with a vaccine shipment, as well as how to report it and how to replace the order if necessary.
Date: April 24, 2025
Time: 12 noon
Primary Audience: Providers and Vaccine Coordinators for the Childhood Vaccine Program
Register for the Training Session
When you receive a vaccine delivery it’s important to make sure that vaccines are placed in the correct storage unit. Immunize.org has updated a popular vaccine storage resource, the Vaccine Storage Quick Reference. This guide shows the appropriate storage temperatures for vaccines approved or authorized for routine use in the United States. We highly recommend placing a copy on each vaccine storage unit to prevent storage mistakes. For additional information on storage of COVID-19 vaccines, you can also refer to the DOH State Supplied COVID-19 Vaccines At-a-Glance.
If you have a concern about the condition of any vaccine upon arrival or while it is in storage, take action and follow the Temperature Excursion Guide or contact us at wachildhoodvaccines@doh.wa.gov for assistance. Remember, improperly stored or outdated vaccines won’t protect your patients!
A recording of the March 27th Childhood Vaccine Program (CVP) Billing & Eligibility Webinar is now available on our Training webpage under the Recorded Webinars heading, along with the trainings slides and Q&A. We encourage anyone involved in CVP eligibility screening and billing to review the webinar recording to ensure you understand program eligibility screening and billing requirements. We also recommend reviewing our new CVP Billing Guide that provides an overview of all billing requirements.
If you have any CVP eligibility or billing questions, please contact us at WAChildhoodVaccines@doh.wa.gov.
The Washington State Department of Health’s Power of Providers (POP) initiative invites you to participate in an upcoming webinar series focused on mental health support for health care professionals. The series continues with Health for Health Care Professionals: Promoting and Participating in Healthy Teams and features prominent Washington clinician and psychologist, Dr. Kira Mauseth. This is part two of the series. Please visit POP's webinar page to view the recording of the previous session.
Health for Health Care Professionals: Promoting and Participating in Healthy Teams
April 9, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 PM PST
Register here
The webinar will be recorded and there will be live ASL interpretation. We are offering free continuing education for nurses and medical assistants.
We have discovered that doses of ‘OPV-unspecified’ given before 4/16/2016 are incorrectly showing in the WAIIS as invalid. This issue occurred with the implementation of the updated WAIIS forecasting tool on February 26, 2025. We changed all ‘OPV-unspecified’ doses administered before 04/01/2016 to ‘trivalent OPV (tOPV)’. This modification will ensure these immunization records are evaluated correctly by the WAIIS forecaster.
Questions about this change can be directed to ImmuneNurses@doh.wa.gov. You can also refer to Polio Vaccine Documentation in the WAIIS. Thank you for emailing us with your questions about the forecast!
Have you completed your annual CVP Provider Agreement renewal? 2024 CVP Provider Agreements will expire at the end of April. Make sure your facility has completed a new agreement for 2025. Don't forget to check that it has been approved and no changes are needed!
We have resources available to help you with this process:
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