Latest on Vaccine Requirements

Most up to date information from the CDC October 23-24, 2024 meeting.

ACIP approved the following recommendations by majority vote at its October 23-24, 2024 meeting.

Pneumonia Vaccines

ACIP recommends a pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccination for all adults 50 years old and older.  Previously it was 65 years old and older.

COVID-19 Vaccines

• ACIP recommends a second dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 for adults ages 65 years and older
• ACIP recommends a second dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 6 months-64 years who are moderately or severely immunocompromised
• ACIP recommends additional doses (i.e., 3 or more doses) of 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 6 months and older who are moderately or severely immunocompromised under shared clinical decision making.

At a minimum, you should wait at least 2 months between doses.

Meningitis Vaccines

ACIP recommends MenB-4C (Bexsero®) (meningitis vaccine) be administered as a 2-dose series at 0 and 6 months when given to healthy adolescents and young adults aged 16–23 years based on shared clinical decision-making for the prevention of serogroup B meningococcal disease.

Previous meningitis vaccine recommendation was a 2-dose series at 0 and 1 month.

Mpox (Monkey Pox) Vaccines

ACIP recommends vaccination* with the 2-dose§ JYNNEOS vaccine series for persons aged 18 years and older at risk for mpox.

*This is an interim recommendation that ACIP will revisit in 2-3 years.
Dose 2 administered 28 days after dose 1

Persons at risk:

• Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, transgender or nonbinary people who in the past 6 months have had one of the following:
  • A new diagnosis of ≥1 sexually transmitted disease
  • More than one sex partner
  • Sex at a commercial sex venue
  • Sex in association with a large public event in a geographic area where mpox transmission is occurring
• Sexual partners of persons with the risks described in above
• Persons who anticipate experiencing any of the above

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