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 F...
CDC urges COVID vaccines during pregnancy 03:35 The CDC is now urging that pregnant people get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing new safety data, according to updated recommendations released Wednesday. The agency said, based on an analysis of growing amounts of data in the v-safe pregnanc...
the plunge in COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness as early as four months after each jab, which may actually increase the risk of subsequent infection, the public health establishment is trying to rekindle Americans’ interest in a so-called layered mitigation strategy to keep COVID infections at bay...
The CDC has begun to provide weekly data on COVID-19 cases and deaths by vaccination statusopens in a new tab or window, illustrating the stark differences between those who have received the shots and those who haven't -- and even revealing some differences between vaccines. Users can parse...
Daniel McQuillen, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said his group applauds ACIP’s recommendations. “Covid-19 is not over. Nearly 400 people die from Covid every day, and almost 5,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid,” he said in a statement. “Eviden...
The new recommendations signal that the Biden administration and its medical advisers have decided that the lower fatality rate from covid-19 in a heavily vaccinated population permits a less demanding set of guidelines. "The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the...
For now, fully vaccinated people should continue to:目前，已接种疫苗人可以选择继续：· Get tested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms · 在存在新冠病毒感染症状时进行核酸检测 · Follow CDC and health department travel requirements and recommendations · 遵守美国疾病防控中心和卫生部的旅行要求和建议。On ...
"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...
Much of thedatathe CDC had tracked on COVID-19 alongside other trends, like influenza and RSV, will also continue to be published. But specific benchmarks, which had guided county-by-county recommendations on when people should wear masks to avoid getting sick, are now being discarded. ...
As cases of the Omicron variant spread, it's important to know the CDC's new standards for face masks. Here's how to check your mask using the new CDC guidelines.