Our IAC Express odometer turns over a big milestone this week. Today’s the perfect day to look back and reflect on 23 years of work to help front-line vaccination workers across the USA. IAC Express content reaches more than 50 other countries as well. We survey our readers regularly and you tell us that the most important thing we can do to help you is to provide the week’s practical news and information about vaccinations. So that’s what a talented team of a dozen hard workers strive to do for you each week.
 
IAC issued IAC Express Number 1 on November 14, 1997, containing exactly two stories: new ACIP hepatitis B recommendations and a Spanish-language immunization video. Nowadays, the average issue covers about 20 topics. The initial email subscribership was 102 recipients.
 
IAC Express Issue #500 was published on December 30, 2004. It added to IAC’s collection of Unprotected People Stories, reports of people who have suffered or died from vaccine-preventable diseases. This was report #71, telling the story of a Wisconsin teenager who survived clinical rabies. That issue reached 18,513 email addresses.
 
IAC Express Issue #1,000, sporting the now familiar blue-and-white banner, was distributed on June 19, 2012 with eleven stories, reaching 45,588 addressees. Topics included a newly licensed vaccine, resources from Every Child By Two (now rebranded Vaccinate Your Family), a new staff education piece of current VIS dates (still a popular item), the release of the 2012 edition of AAP’s Red Book, and an MMWR supplement on clinical preventive services among adults.
 
IAC Executive Director Deborah Wexler reflects: “After 23 years, what makes me the proudest is the outstanding work of IAC’s staff members who work every day of the week, 51 weeks a year, to bring our readers the most up-to-date news and information on the practical aspects of immunization. I’m thrilled about our growing subscribership as well. At this point, we reach more than 51,400 subscribers, many of whom forward their copies onward to additional people.”
 
The entire collection of back issues is archived for you at the right-hand column of our IAC Express gateway page, www.immunize.org/express/.
 
IAC also thanks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for its faithful financial support since 1995, as well as many other sponsors along the way, enabling our team to bring you the news you can use.
 
We want to grow our IAC Express subscriber list even more, so invite your colleagues to get their own email copy every Wednesday (plus periodic Special Editions). Go to www.immunize.org/subscribe/. 
 
Do you have suggestions for making IAC Express even better? We’re always interested in hearing your ideas. Tell us how IAC Express content helps you in your setting. Just email us at [email protected].
 
We do all this work for you, to help you be better vaccinators. Thanks for keeping people healthy!
 

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CDC issues interim guidance for immunization services during pandemic

On June 9, CDC issued Interim Guidance for Immunization Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic to help immunization providers in a variety of clinical settings plan for safe vaccine administration during the COVID-19 pandemic. CDC will update this guidance as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.

Highlights include:

• Considerations for routine vaccination of all recommended vaccinations for children, adolescents, and adults, including pregnant women
• General practices for the safe delivery of vaccination services, including considerations for alternative vaccination sites
• Strategies for catch-up vaccinations

CDC encourages all stakeholders to share this guidance with your members and other partners.

Related Link

• IAC's Repository of Resources for Maintaining Immunization during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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