We will address, with the same sense of urgency, recommendations for the Moderna and J&J vaccines as soon as those data are available. While today’s action was an initial step related to booster shots, it will not distract from our most important focus of primary vaccination in the United ...
"I think all of that needs to be weighed. And so that's why I hesitate to make it just a universal recommendation, even though I do support vaccination with the COVID vaccine," Sanchez said. Trying to come up with tailored recommendations could also be impractical to implement, CDC offici...
with vaccination rates even lower among those who are Hispanic/Latino or Black. The CDC has struggled for months to increase rates of vaccination among pregnant Americans, even as the toll of COVID-19 in this group has climbed.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director on Tuesday signed off on broad use of updated COVID-19 vaccines approved by the government - covering ages 6 months and up - as the country prepares to start a vaccination campaign within days. The final recommendation from director Mandy ...
“Vaccination remains critical to public health and continued protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,” said Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), in the FDA release. “The...
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The CDC director signed off on the broad use of updated COVID-19 vaccines approved by the government as the US prepares to start a vaccination campaign.
But it appears that some states had so few concerns about the Pfizer vaccine that they began offering it to patients before ACIP had issued its recommendations. The Delaware Division of Public Health opened four COVID-19-specific clinics on Wednesday and said it would start administering the Pfiz...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine advisers voted unanimously Thursday to expand their recommendations for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to virtually all ages of children, adding the first alternative to Pfizer's shots for millions of adolescents and school-age kids. On...
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health said no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended this spring/summer season, including for people at high risk of becoming seriously sick from the virus. “Nearly everyone in Switzerland has been vaccinated and/or contracted and recovered from COVID-19. Th...