To decrease the impact of COVID-19, and related hospitalisations and mortality, countries should plan for a continued roll-out of COVID vaccines in 2023.
This document offers an overview of the available scientific evidence and epidemiological situation and provides public health considerations to support discussions and decisions on the planning and implementation of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns for 2023.
This update reports on one of the ECDC multi-country studies that is centred around the hospital setting and severe disease, with the aim of assessing vaccine effectiveness against severe acuterespiratory infection (SARI) due to laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 within the ECDC VaccineEffectiveness, Burden and Impact Studies infrastructure (VEBIS) [1,2].
This report provides an updated overview on the progress of national COVID-19 vaccination strategies and deployment in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries, including updates on overall vaccine uptake and uptake by target group and vaccination strategies and policies.
What is avian influenza (bird flu)? Why are we concerned about bird flu outbreaks? What are the control measures in birds and animals? How do outbreaks of avian influenza spread? etc.