Update From the September 2022 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Authors

Claudia Gaviria-Agudelo, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
Alexandra B. Yonts, Department of Pediatrics, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington D.C.
Sean T. O'Leary, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
Evan J. Anderson, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

10-30-2022

Journal

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

DOI

10.1093/jpids/piac114

Abstract

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts that provides expert advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), normally meets three times per year to develop US vaccine recommendations. The ACIP increased their meeting frequency over the past 2.5 years to address vaccine-related issues during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. They met to discuss updating COVID-19 booster dose recommendations on September 1, 2022 recommending use of new bivalent Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) booster vaccines which include equal amounts of ancestral and Omicron BA.4/BA.5 variant mRNA that encodes the spike protein.

APA Citation

Gaviria-Agudelo, Claudia; Yonts, Alexandra B.; O'Leary, Sean T.; and Anderson, Evan J., "Update From the September 2022 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices" (2022). GW Authored Works. Paper 1723.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/1723

Department

Pediatrics