The Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association (EZMSA) is pleased to release the work of our Vaccine Resource Committee on patient vaccine questions and responses.
The following resource is a set of common vaccine questions and answers intended to support physicians with their patients.
The Vaccine Resource Committee convened from May 2024 to March 2025. The eight members consisted of infectious diseases, family medicine, public health, paediatrics, emergency medicine and immunology physicians. We thank them for their time and expertise to make these resources available for physicians and their patients.
The EZMSA gathered questions from our members. We asked physicians to send us the questions they receive from patients about vaccines. Our panel of eight physicians reviewed the questions and have put together a collection of sources. All answers to the questions are compiled from original content and are not our work.
The vaccines included in these questions are:
- general vaccines
- COVID-19
- diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine
- hepatitis B
- herpes zoster (shingles)
- human papillomavirus (HPV)
- influenza
- measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chicken pox)
- meningococcal
- pneumococcal
- poliomyelitis (polio)
- respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- rotavirus
