Iowa Immunizes

08/21/2025

Yesterday, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) shared reassuring findings from its Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP). After reviewing nearly 600 studies—including 50 clinical trials—experts found no new safety concerns for COVID-19, RSV, or influenza vaccines.

Despite recent federal rollbacks on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published its own evidence-based schedule, continuing to recommend COVID vaccination for young children and adolescents in certain risk groups.

Medical societies including ACOG, IDSA, and AAFP are expected to follow with their own independent guidance. CIDRAP emphasizes that Americans will continue to have evidence-based recommendations from front-line medical experts to guide protection against viruses that cause tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths every year.

08/20/2025

A healthy squad is a strong squad! Teen vaccinations help protect everyone in your friend group. Be the one who keeps your community safe.

08/20/2025

Pertussis, hep A, and meningitis still ocassionally find their way into our communities. The difference between an outbreak affecting you or passing you by? Being up to date on vaccines.

08/19/2025

Pregnancy puts you at higher risk from certain infections, even if you’ve always been healthy before. Vaccines step in to provide the protection your body might not be able to give on its own.

08/18/2025

📚✏️ Back-to-school season is here! Don't forget to add updated vaccinations to your checklist. Protect your child’s health and keep them classroom-ready—schedule a vaccine appointment today.

08/18/2025

📚✏️ New grade, new school year — but is your middle schooler fully protected? 💉✨
Before they head back to class, double check their vaccination records and make sure they're caught up.
A quick visit now can help protect them from serious diseases and keep them healthy all year long. 🛡️🏫👩‍⚕️

✅ One less thing to worry about during back-to-school season!

08/17/2025

✏️📚 Meningitis used to move fast. Now so can we.

Thanks to vaccines that protect against five strains of meningococcal meningitis, we’ve slowed it down and kept students safe.

As your family preps for the , make sure your child is protected. 🎒✅ Let’s not go back.

08/17/2025

From a simple cold to reactive airway disease that requires daily treatments. RSV turned Jess’s healthy baby into a frequent patient—exactly what the new vaccines and monoclonal antibodies prevent. https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/how-rsv-changes-lives/

Nobody wants their kids to be sick. To have a child almost die from a virus, though? That’s a whole different level of powerlessness.

08/16/2025

“I was surprised that it was really that thorough.”

Sonja participated in an RSV vaccine trial. Though it wasn’t the vaccine that went to market, she ended up getting that vaccine because she believed in the scientific process. https://youtu.be/SMkUrOj6vQs?si=kg61rp_VTWUkEREs

Sonja talks about her experience participating in GSK's RSV vaccine trial, and how it strengthened her trust in the scientific process.Read more about RSV: h...

08/16/2025

“Wouldn’t it be good to know that you did everything that you could to prevent this from happening?”

Carolyn shares her family’s experience with RSV before there was a vaccine.

08/15/2025

📼💿 If you grew up with Beanie Babies and Tamagotchis 🐣, you might not have had the option to get protected against HPV.

Now our kids do. ✨

Give them the protection past generations didn’t have, because some things like HPV (and dial-up internet and pagers) should stay in the past. 🚫📟