Event: ACIP meeting April 19, 2023, virtual, 11-3pm

CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upcoming meeting on April 19, 2023 11-3pm, no registration necessary since the meetings are virtual and there is a webcast
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/index.html

This one is an emergency meeting just called within the past week or so. Most likely to discuss authorizing additional boosters.

Individuals may request to make an oral public comment at the meeting:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/index.html

Deadline to request to make an oral public comment is April 17th.

There is some concern growing over a new variant, XBB.1.16. The CDC added this variant to their variant tracker this week, with the US starting to see it around March 11: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
Note that the three columns to the far right are 'nowcast', meaning that they are estimate projections.

For the Novavax (a protein-based Covid vaccine) enthusiasts, this pre-print became available in February:
Comparative Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and NVX-CoV2373 Vaccines in Korean Adults
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.23286136v1
Excerpt: "Estimated risk of severe infection was 0.001 events per 1000 persons (95% CI, 0 to 0.003) for the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine and 0.002 events per 1000 persons (95% CI, 0.001 to 0.006) for BNT162b2 vaccine."

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