Adult RSV Vaccines Given To More Than 30 Infants, Young Children By Mistake, CDC Says

MedPage Today (5/9, Kahn) says, “Nearly three dozen babies and young children have received respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, which are only approved for adults, according to a brief CDC report.” Data “revealed 27 reports of the Pfizer RSV vaccine (Abrysvo) and seven reports of the GSK RSV vaccine (Arexvy) being mistakenly administered to children under the age of 2 between Aug. 21, 2023 and March 18, 2024,” researchers detailed in Pediatrics.