For a number of years, I’ve been honored to write a quarterly column, “Vaccine News You Can Use” for the Colorado Family Physician magazine. In many of the past years, my dear friend, Reginald Finger, MD, MPH, co-wrote with me, but now I’m solo. Below are the news snippets and my comments from the Winter Quarter.

If you’d like to see any of these stories, which are written for healthcare professionals, in general, and family physicians in Colorado, in particular, click here:

• Vaccine Awareness: Family Medicine Resources.
• School and childcare immunization requirements for the 2022-2023 school year.
• ACIP recommends COVID-19 vaccines be added to 2023 child and adult vaccine schedules.
• ACIP recs for new pneumococcal vax in previously immunized adults.
• Pfizer to seek FDA approval for maternal RSV vaccine.
• We FPs can do a better job implementing universal Hepatitis B vaccination.
• Parental concern about childhood vaccine safety increased during the COVID pandemic.
• Vaccinations dramatically reduce HPV prevalence in young women.
• Annual flu shots are tied to lower ischemic stroke risk. Colorado Family Physician.
• Do text message reminders promote receipt of second flu vaccine dose in kids?
• Experts worry about public reaction to vaccine study.

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