The Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Immunization Program for the Georgia Department of Public Health would like to alert parents to a change in school immunization requirements.
Effective July 1, 2020, students who are 16 years of age and older and who are attending 11th grade must receive a booster dose of meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4), unless their initial dose was administered on or after their 16th birthday.
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