In recent months, additional data was presented to the work group on prevalence of infection-induced immunity to the virus, long COVID, multisystem inflammatory syndrome and COVID-19 vaccine uptake, the agency
CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
“This is the first respiratory virus season where we have vaccines against the biggest respiratory virus threats, including an updated COVID-19 vaccine, an annual flu vaccine, RSV vaccines for older adults, as well as a long-acting monoclonal antibody for infants that reduces the risk of both...
Vaccine efficacy has fallen from 75% at first to just over 50% among long term care facility residents, Oliver said. These were the first people vaccinated after the shots became available in December and January. "The data we have seen today has demonstrated that Covid vaccines continue to ...
“We are the first country to protect our youngest children with COVID-19 vaccines, offering safe and highly effective mRNA doses to children as young as six months old,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “My Administration secured vaccine doses for America...
Yes, you can still get COVID-19 after being vaccinated. Experts explain why Why do breakthrough infections happen? “The vaccine teaches your body how to produce an immune response to destroy the virus. And like everything else in biology, there’s a huge variance in how effective that can...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a second dose of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine, administered 6 months after the first dose, for people aged 65 years or older and individuals who are immunocompromised. Additional doses of the vaccine can maximize prot...
This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19. A large study found that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving three doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had ...
Myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, usually responds well to treatment, theCDC says, and research shows people are more likely to develop myocarditis from a COVID infection than from the vaccine. "I think all of that needs to be weighed. And so that's why I hesitate to make...
Related article Latest Covid-19 vaccine offers strong protection against symptomatic infection, including from JN.1, early CDC data shows “We think that options for remote work and paid leave opportunities are an important component of this,” Cohen said. She also said she’d like to see mo...