CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
vaccination in the initial phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program (phase 1a) should be offered to both 1) health care personnel and 2) residents of long-term care facilities," read the approved language from the vote by members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice (ACIP). ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)released updated recommendationsfor how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. The new guidance brings a unified approach to addressing risks from a range of common respiratory viral illnesses,...
A group of independent experts voted Tuesday that health care workers and long term care facilities should get the first shots of a COVID-19 vaccine.
On November 30, 2022, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) updated its Advisory on Return-to-Work Protocols for Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to Sars-CoV-2. This new guidance supersedes previous New York guidance to be consistent with recommendations ...
This recent committee meeting added to those recommendations by advising individuals 65 and older to get an additional dose of the 2023–2024 formula COVID-19 vaccine. If followed by the target population, this recommendation will offer these individuals additional protection against the...
"This vote allows people to make the best decisions possible to keep themselves and their loved ones safe from COVID-19," CDC Director Mandy Cohen said in a news release announcing the new recommendations. "CDC will continue to educate the public on how and when to get their updated ...
In a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health expertsupdatedpneumococcal vaccination recommendations for adults 19 and older. The updated guidelines recommend that adults who have only had the p...
Updated CDC COVID-19 guidance streamlines isolation rules eliminating separate recommendations for unvaccinated individuals.In a statement, lead author
COVID-19 vaccine supporters are fond of sneering at public figures who have called for the Food and Drug Administration to pull or at least re-evaluate the safety of the increasingly unpopular therapeutics, such as Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cardiologist ...