Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

COVID Vaccines Protected Children In Last Respiratory Virus Season

A new analysis published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found the 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccines provided meaningful protection against the need for emergency department or urgent care visits related to COVID-19 in children. Using a test-negative design, researchers found vaccine effectiveness was 76% (95% confidence interval [CI], 58%–87%) for children aged 9 months-4 years and 56% (95% CI, 35%–70%) for those aged 5-17 years. Protection persisted with extended follow-up through 299 days. Approximately 38,000 …

AAP Recommends Kids Get COVID Vaccines

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) this week released an immunization schedule including evidence-based guidance for COVID-19 vaccines for children and adolescents. What some see as controversial, however, is the fact that the AAP schedule doesn’t align with recent government agency announcements. Specifically, AAP recommends the COVID vaccine for all children 6 months to 23 months of age as well as older children who are in several risk groups. By contrast, the latest Food and …

Committee Considering Risk-Based COVID Vaccine Guidelines

One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s work groups is considering backpedaling universal COVID-19 vaccine recommendations—the current thinking—in favor of recommendations based on individual risk for the occurrence of more severe disease. If the suggestion advances, guidance would still call for adults aged 65 years and older as well as anyone with underlying health risks to receive at least 2 doses of the COVID vaccine every year. However, anyone outside of the high-risk …

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