This Week in JAMA
Abstract
Reducing Racial Disparities in Pneumococcal Disease The incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease has declined since 2000, when a new conjugate pneumococcal vaccine was recommended for infants and children, but whether long-standing racial disparities in disease incidence have narrowed is not known. Flannery and colleaguesArticle analyzed data from a continuous, population-based surveillance system in 7 states to assess the effect of the vaccine on disease rates in whites and blacks. Their...