FAU medical experts back CDC’s latest COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in new study – WEAR

FAU medical experts back CDC's latest COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in new study

Researchers from FAU published their recommendations in the American Journal of Medicine. (Credit: WTGS).{ }

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12)

Medical experts at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) published new guidance to health care providers following recommendations from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding the latest COVID-19 vaccines.

The CDC is recommending the public get the latest COVID-19 vaccines that were recently granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The EUA's were issued for the latest mRNA COVID-19 vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer back on Sept. 11, 2023.

Researchers from FAU published their recommendations in the American Journal of Medicine.

The war on COVID-19 continues to be fought valiantly and selflessly by health care professionals in communities and hospitals across the nation., said Allison H. Ferris, M.D., senior author, chair of the Department of Medicine, and program director of the internal medicine residency program for the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine. As competent and compassionate physicians, we must redouble our efforts to promote evidence-based clinical and public health practices, including vaccination of all eligible U.S. adults and children with the new vaccine."

FAU experts said reliable evidence shows the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the potential risks, noting that vaccine eligible children will also benefit from receiving the vaccine, leading to a reduction of death and hospitalizations of their parents, grandparents, childcare providers and schoolteachers.

In the face of continuing opposition to masking, social distancing and crowd avoidance in the U.S., vaccination is the best defense against a new emerging strain, said Dr. Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., P.H., co-author, and the first Richard Doll Professor and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at FAU. This approach coupled with a prescription of Paxlovid as needed during the first five days following infection will also further reduce hospitalizations and deaths.

The study was co-authored by Sarah K. Wood, MD, FAAP, M.D., senior author, director of the Harvard Macy Institute at Harvard Medical School and former professor of pediatrics and vice dean for medical education at FAU Schmidt College of Medicine and Dennis G. Maki, M.D., Ovid O. Meyer professor of medicine, director of the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit and an infectious disease clinician and epidemiologist from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Mia Glickman, a second-year medical student at the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine.

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