immunization Tag

05 Nov

Posted at 18:23h in Medical Equipment, Vaccine Studies

Editorial Notice: This article is general information for clinic staff and does not replace CDC guidance, vaccine manufacturers' instructions, or the requirements of your state or local immunization program. Products and companies named or linked in this article are not warranted or endorsed by MedicalResearch.com or Eminent Domains Inc.

Nobody plans for the morning a nurse opens the vaccine refrigerator and sees a reading that looks wrong. The stock inside is costly to replace and slow to reorder, and temperature excursions can compromise the safety and efficacy of temperature-sensitive inventory. Heading into the holiday closures of late 2026, when staffing is thin and weekends run long, that moment is worth rehearsing before it arrives.

This guide covers the first hour of a response, how to document it, and how to lower the odds of a repeat. It is written for practice managers, nurse leads and pharmacy staff rather than engineers.

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26 Mar

Posted at 15:23h in Author Interviews, Autism, Social Issues, University of Pittsburgh, Vaccine Studies
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_48157" align="alignleft" width="160"]Beth Hoffman, B.Sc., graduate studentUniversity of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public HealthResearch Assistant,University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health Beth Hoffman[/caption] Beth Hoffman, B.Sc., graduate student University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Vaccine refusal is a public health crisis - low vaccination rates are leading to outbreaks of deadly vaccine-preventable diseases. In 2017, Kids Plus Pediatrics, a Pittsburgh-based pediatric practice, posted a video on its Facebook pagef eaturing its practitioners encouraging HPV vaccination to prevent cancer. Nearly a month after the video posted, it caught the attention of multiple anti-vaccination groups and, in an eight-day period, garnered thousands of anti-vaccination comments. Our team analyzed the profiles of a randomly selected sample of 197 commenters in the hopes that this crisis may be stemmed if we can better understand and communicate with vaccine-hesitant parents. We determined that, although Kids Plus Pediatrics is an independent practice caring for patients in the Pittsburgh region, the commenters in the sample were spread across 36 states and eight countries. By delving into the messages that each commenter had publicly posted in the previous two years, we also found that they clustered into four distinct subgroups:
  • “trust,” which emphasized suspicion of the scientific community and concerns about personal liberty;
  • “alternatives,” which focused on chemicals in vaccines and the use of homeopathic remedies instead of vaccination;
  • “safety,” which focused on perceived risks and concerns about vaccination being immoral; and
  • “conspiracy,” which suggested that the government and other entities hide information that this subgroup believes to be facts, including that the polio virus does not exist.