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Chronic Diseases

WebVaccines for Adults with Chronic Diseases Chronic health conditions can increase your risk of serious complications from certain vaccine-preventable diseases, such as flu and COVID-19. Serious complications may include long-term illness, hospitalization, and even death. This is true, even if you feel healthy and your medical condition is under …

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Vaccines & Diseases

WebVaccines & Diseases. Some vaccine-preventable diseases like flu and whooping cough remain common in the United States. Others are less common like polio, but still exist throughout the world and can cause serious illness, hospitalizations and even death to people of all ages. Luckily, we have the ability to protect ourselves from 16 …

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Preteens & Teens

WebLast updated: January 11, 2024. As your children become preteens, some vaccines they received as infants and young children begin to wear off and they need a "booster dose". Other vaccines, including HPV, Tdap, meningococcal - and now COVID-19 - are recommended for kids starting at ages 11 or 12 to keep them healthy into adulthood.

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How Will I Pay for My Family’s Vaccinations

WebPaying for Vaccines Online Tool. Last updated: January 29, 2022. For over 30 years, Vaccinate Your Family has both led and supported countless initiatives to help people get vaccinated. Learn more about a few of our current programs. This page will help answer your questions about COVID-19 vaccines, including how the vaccine is paid for.

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Are Vaccines Effective

WebIt’s easy to take the protection offered by routine vaccines for granted, but in reality routine vaccines have saved over 1 million lives in the United States in the last 30 years. Here, we address some of the most common questions about how effective vaccines are, and why they’re so important for our collective wellbeing.

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How Do I Get Vaccinated

WebThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set the recommended immunization schedules in the U.S. based on recommendations from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The ACIP is the only U.S.-based organization that publishes the immunization schedules based on scientific research and …

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Vaccine Benefits

WebThe CDC estimates that vaccination of children born between 1994 and 2021 in the U.S. will prevent 472 million illnesses, help avoid 1,052,000 deaths, and save nearly $2.2 trillion in total societal costs (that includes $479 billion in direct costs). Unfortunately, too often, our organization learns of people who suffer from illness and

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Paying for Vaccines

WebCall 1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1-855-889-4325) Fill out an application through the Health Insurance Marketplace ( Healthcare.gov website). If it looks like anyone in your household qualifies for Medicaid or CHIP, they will send your information to your state agency who will then contact you about enrollment.

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Vaccine Resources

WebVaccinate Your Family has gathered and created resources for families, healthcare providers and our immunization partners. Explore all of the resources below or narrow your search using our filters by audience and by type of resource. And don’t forget to check out our Questions About Vaccines section for answers to commonly-asked questions.

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Vaccination Records

WebCheck with your state’s health department. You can: Request a copy of your and/or your children’s immunization records. Ask if your and/or your children’s immunization records are in the IIS. Contact the IIS in the state where you/your children received your most recent vaccinations to see if records exist and to request official copies.

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Vaccines Protect Communities

WebVaccines not only keep individuals healthy, they also help keep communities healthy. Diseases can travel quickly through a community and make a lot of people sick. However, when enough people are vaccinated against a certain disease, the germs can’t travel as easily from person to person, and the entire community is less likely to get the

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Outbreaks of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

WebWhile the number of whooping cough cases has gone down since the vaccine, frequent outbreaks still happen in the U.S. and around the world. In 2012, the most recent peak year of whooping cough, there were 48,277 cases of the diseases reported in the U.S., and many more cases go unreported. Between 2014 and 2019, almost 120,000 …

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Vaccines Are Cost Saving

WebFor every $1 spent on childhood vaccinations, our country saves $10.90. And CDC estimates that for the vaccination of children born between 1994 and 2018 has saved the U.S. nearly $406 billion in direct medical costs and $1.88 trillion in total society costs. In 2019, the U.S. dealt with a large measles outbreak with 1,282 cases in 31 states.

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Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco DNP, PNP-BC, CPNP

WebCoordinator, Child Health Suffolk County Department of Health Services, NY (retired) Dr. Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco is coordinator for child health at Suffolk County Department of Health Service in New York, a primary care provider and preceptor for graduate and undergraduate students, and an assistant professor at Long Island University Post in …

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Vaccines 101: Information for WIC Staff

WebVaccinate Your Family created the Vaccines 101: Information for WIC Staff booklet to provide WIC staff with an overview of key vaccine messages and a list of vaccine-preventable diseases, their symptoms, and

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Questions and Answers about Mpox

WebMpox is a rare disease caused by infection with the mpox virus. It is related to the viruses that cause smallpox and cowpox, but not related to chickenpox. Despite the former name “monkeypox” the source of the disease is unknown. The first human case of mpox was recorded in 1970, and mpox has been reported in relatively low numbers on …

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Craig Kennedy, MPH

WebCraig Kennedy serves as the CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America, a position he began in December of 2019 after more than two decades in non-profit association management and in leadership positions on Capitol Hill. He has management responsibility for all aspects of the Association and reports to the MHPA Board of …

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