Allowing Rotavirus Vaccination in NICU May Boost Coverage

In an accompanying editorial, Jessica R. Cataldi, MD, MSCS, and Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPH, with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado, pointed out that studies from several countries have shown the safety of rotavirus vaccination in NICUs, including a large study from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, “that found < 1% of stool samples from patients who were unvaccinated tested positive for vaccine-strain rotavirus.”