CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
"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...
Millions of Americans between the ages of 12 and 15 can now get abooster shotof Pfizer'sCOVID-19vaccine, after the CDC formally adopted new recommendations backed by a majority of the agency's outside vaccine advisers.The CDC now says that Americans as young as 12 who received Pfizer's C...
Today, Centers for Disease Contol and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation for a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in certain populations and also recommended a booster dose...
ACIP members had other concerns that were discussed at some length during the full-day meeting. A number were uneasy about the fact that the recommendations stated that people could get one of these updated boosters two months after having received an earlier Covid vaccine, with the concerns hin...
The CDC's new recommendations reflect that reality, Schaffner said.“This is not a way we usually give vaccines,” he said. But, “we have to move into this new way of providing vaccine protection.”Sources U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, Oct. 25, 2024 ...
U.S. CDC panel members said simply recommending the vaccine for everybody outweighed complications created by tailoring recommendations more precisely. "I'm strongly in favor of a universal recommendation," panel member and professor at Harvard Medical School Dr. Camille Kotton said. "Let's do...
The CDC's new recommendations reflect that reality, Schaffner said.“This is not a way we usually give vaccines,” he said. But, “we have to move into this new way of providing vaccine protection.”More informationThe CDC has more on COVID-19....
US CDC panel members said simply recommending the vaccine for everybody outweighed complications created by tailoring recommendations more precisely. ALSO READ:New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises "I'm strongly in favor of a universal recommendation," panel member and professor...
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 ...