NACI recommended that seniors who are 80 years and older, residents of long-term care homes, and adults and children six months and older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised should get two doses of COVID-19 vaccine per year.
In 2024, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control estimated that syphilis cases had risen by 79 per cent between 2018 to 2022, physicians should be screening all sexually active persons with new or multiple partners to help curb this.
Given this rapid pace of growth, it can be challenging to keep current. This article offers an overview of vaccines recently approved and/or marketed in Canada to help make sense of all these recent changes.