Issue 1,534: December 5, 2020
ACIP’s Interim Recommendation on Allocating
COVID-19 Vaccine
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CDC publishes "ACIP Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine—U.S., 2020"
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NCIRD leaders Drs. Messonnier and Cohn’s webinar presentation on COVID-19 vaccination implementation is now available online

CDC publishes “ACIP Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine—U.S., 2020”
 
CDC published The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine—United States, 2020 in an Early Release MMWR on December 3. 
 
As interim guidance, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that both 1) healthcare personnel and 2) residents of long- term care facilities be offered COVID-19 vaccine in the initial phase of the vaccination program. All CDC information on current COVID-19 vaccine recommendations is available online at
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/covid-19.html.

In conjunction with the interim ACIP recommendations, CDC published "Clinical Considerations" on a web page titled Interim Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel and Long-Term Care Facility Residents. This page provides information on additional topics, including sub-prioritization information of COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare personnel (HCP) and for those in long-term care facilities. It also discusses vaccination of pregnant and breastfeeding HCP and post-vaccination symptoms in HCP.

Access the MMWR article in HTML format or in PDF format.

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NCIRD leaders Drs. Messonnier and Cohn’s webinar presentation on COVID-19 vaccination implementation is now available online

On December 3, CDC leaders Nancy Messonnier, MD, director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) and COVID- 10 Vaccine Task Force; and Amanda Cohn, MD, chief medical officer, NCIRD and COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force were featured speakers on an IAC webinar titled COVID-19 Vaccination Implementation and ‘Vaccinate with Confidence’ Strategy.

Specific topics included an overview of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategy, current state planning efforts, and the COVID-19 “Vaccinate with Confidence” strategy. 

IAC's chief strategy officer, Dr. L.J Tan, moderated the webinar and the Q&A session that followed.


 
The webinar was full to capacity at 3,000 attendees. The entire webinar is now archived for viewing at www.immunize.org/webinars/cdc2 and the slides are available for download.
 
Please share the webinar link with your colleagues.

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