CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
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...
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...
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 ...
The unvaccinated population is the main risk group. Delta variant may reduce the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine. However, all COVID-19 vaccines are protective, and can reduce the risk of severe diseases and death. Those with chronic diseases are at high risk for severe diseases and death from...
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 ...
COVID-19 vaccines are now included among the routine shots recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for children, adolescents and adults. The 2023 list includes shots for the flu, measles mumps and rubella, polio, and other ino
By now, nearly all Americans have had a COVID infection, gotten a COVID vaccine or both, but the updated vaccines offer a timely boost as immunity wanes and the virus continues to evolve, the CDC said. "Professionals and the public in general do not understand how much this virus has mu...
COVID-19 fell to the fourth-leading primary cause of death in the U.S. last year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. SEE: Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News The coronavirus came in behind heart disease, cancer and unintent...
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 ...