An independent group at the University of Minnesota will systematically review the evidence behind meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccination in children and young adults.
The Vaccine Integrity Project, based at the university's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, announced the reviews this week. Executive Director Michael Osterholm said parents and clinicians need to trust that vaccine recommendations rest on a comprehensive and transparent review of the best available science, and that the need is especially important now, when "the federal vaccine review and recommendation process is not functioning as it historically has."
