Adult Immunization Updates

ACIP charter changes and HHS restructuring continue to unfold, with direct effects on how adult vaccine recommendations may be revisited.

• Revised...

Global influenza activity has largely re-established pre-pandemic seasonal patterns, with northern hemisphere peaks typically December–March...

FDA Panel Decisions on COVID Vaccines

• 🔥 2026-2027 Strain Selection: FDA advisory panel voted to update COVID-19 vaccines to target the XFG...

Growing data now backs giving multiple vaccines like flu and COVID together in one visit for adults.

• Webinar specialists explain early 14-day...

No significant updates today.

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Eli Lilly is acquiring three vaccine companies for nearly $4 billion to expand infectious disease prevention.

• Shingles vaccine from Curevo uses a...

Panama's confirmation of two imported measles cases has prompted urgent calls to update vaccination schedules for adults alongside children at free immunization points nationwide.

Protein-based COVID-19 vaccines demonstrate superior tolerability to mRNA comparators, offering an alternative for adults concerned about side effects.

US health officials are weighing an XFG-targeted COVID vaccine for the 2026-27 season, as this subvariant now drives most US cases and manufacturers stand ready to produce it, even as WHO recommends LP.8.1 instead.

• MAHA groups coordinated a major push, introducing hundreds of anti-vaccine bills in state legislatures this year, far more than previous sessions.
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• Travel risk rising: Outbreak entered via tourists and returning travelers, concentrated in Tokyo.
• Elderly hit hardest: Waning immunity drives...

CDC Adult Hepatitis B Screening Guidance

• 🔥 Lifetime Screening Recommendation: CDC recommends adults 18 and older be screened at least once...

RSV infection carries important implications for older adults and public health strategies.

CDC continues to recommend one-time triple-panel screening for all adults 18+, separate from vaccination status. Recent changes to the newborn birth...

Clinics can raise pneumococcal uptake in adults 50+ through targeted workflow fixes.

• PDSA cycles with CMA pre-queuing and morning huddle prompts...

Immunosenescence combined with gut microbiota shifts and mTOR overactivation sharply reduces vaccine responses in older adults.

• Microbial diversity...

Kira Ganga Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy reflects moral and existential concerns rather than ignorance of science.

• It functions as a form...

Policy Shifts Affecting Recommendations

• 🔥 ACIP Membership Rules Revert: HHS withdrew the April ACIP charter revision that loosened membership...

A new model evaluated expanding age-based PCV recommendations from 65 to 50 using PCV20 or PCV21.

• Moving vaccination to age 50 reduced disease in...