{"id":13193,"date":"2025-11-14T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/?p=13193"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:34:50","slug":"updated-clinical-guidance-for-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/updated-clinical-guidance-for-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Clinical Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The CDC released updated clinical guidance for the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Previously, all unvaccinated children younger than 5 years were recommended to receive 2 doses of 2025-2026 Moderna vaccine as their primary series.<br><br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Now, children aged 6-23 months who are unvaccinated are recommended to receive 2 doses as their primary series. In addition, children aged 6-23 months who previously received 1 dose of Pfizer vaccine should also receive 2 doses of 2025-2026 Moderna vaccine.\u00a0<\/strong>As a reminder, Pfizer vaccine is no longer available for children aged 6 months-4 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It is also recommended that children aged 2 years (24 months) and older receive only 1 dose of the 2025-2026 Moderna vaccine, even if previously unvaccinated.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If given 2025-2026 Novavax vaccine, children aged 12+ are recommended to receive 1 dose, even if previously unvaccinated.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Review the tables (previewed below)&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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this CDC webpage<\/strong><\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for a deeper dive into these changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028.png 773w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028-480x260.png 480w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028-700x379.png 700w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-093028-600x324.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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src=\"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-1024x418.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-1024x418.png 1024w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-480x196.png 480w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-700x286.png 700w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618-600x245.png 600w, https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-13-092618.png 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/covid\/hcp\/vaccine-considerations\/routine-guidance.html#heading-od-jmebm1w\">Review the updated guidance<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For any questions about this updated guidance, please contact us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:vaccines@phila.gov?subject=&amp;body=\"><strong>vaccines@phila.gov<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC released updated clinical guidance for the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine. Review the tables (previewed below)&nbsp;on this CDC webpage&nbsp;for a deeper dive into these changes. For any questions about this updated guidance, please contact us at\u00a0vaccines@phila.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,137,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-directors-notes","category-covid-19","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaccines.phila.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}