US CDC Panel’s Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations Leave Confusion In Their Wake

 
• By Sue Sutter

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ October vote on use of Pfizer’s Prevnar 20 and Merck & Co’s Vaxneuvance was more restrictive than intended, inadvertently leaving out guidance for people who were previously vaccinated with Prevnar 13.

Pneumococcal vaccine checklist
Only older or immunocompromised people who are naive to pneumococcal conjugate vaccines may get one of the newly licensed formulations under ACIP's current recommendations. • Source: Alamy

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