Julianne Gee, Tom T Shimabukuro, John R Su, David Shay, Margaret Ryan, Sridhar V Basavaraju, Karen R Broder, Matthew Clark, C Buddy Creech, Francesca Cunningham, Kristin Goddard, Harrison Guy, Kathryn M Edwards, Richard Forshee, Tanya Hamburger, Anne M Hause, Nicola P Klein, Ian Kracalik, Chris Lamer, David A Loran, Michael M McNeil, Jay Montgomery, Pedro Moro, Tanya R Myers, Christine Olson, Matthew E Oster, Andrea J Sharma, Ryan Schupbach, Eric Weintraub, Brett Whitehead, Steven Anderson
The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program, which commenced in December 2020, has been instrumental in preventing morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 disease. Safety monitoring has been an essential component of the program. The federal government undertook a comprehensive and coordinated approach to implement complementary safety monitoring systems and to communicate findings in a timely and transparent way to healthcare providers, policymakers, and the public. Monitoring involved both well-established and newly developed systems that relied on both spontaneous (passive) and active surveillance methods...
April 16, 2024: Vaccine