Rates among nursing home residents getting a COVID-19 vaccine are also better this year: 27% werereported"up to date" on this season's shots through Nov. 3, compared with 21% by around the same time in 2023. More data on COVID-19 vaccinations among seniors is expected later this fall...
Vaccinated seniors can be more social under new CDC guidelines COVID lockdown sent many elderly people into complete isolation, but the vaccine is returning them to some kind of normal social life. A resident of Mill Valley was able to have dinner and share hugs with her great grandchildren ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new way for Americans to look up how high or low levels of viruses likeCOVID-19andfluare in their local area for 2024. This year's new"community snapshot"is the CDC's latest attempt to repackage its d...
While it may feel like much of life has returned to normal compared to the height of COVID, the CDC says between two to 4,000 Americans are still dying from the disease each week. Most of those are seniors who fall into other high-risk groups. No description available US kindergarten va...
Walensky went on to point out that teachers sit in the “1B” vaccination priority group, meaning that they are prioritized at the same level as seniors over the age of 75 for getting the vaccine. That group sits just behind first responders in the CDC’s vaccine priority list. Th...
First-generation vaccines were not the panacea hoped for in COVID-19’s early days. Nor did herd immunity swoop in and save the day. Could a so-called “pan-coronavirus” vaccine be the long-awaited silver bullet that ends the COVID pandemic—and the next one, too? CNBC There's a ma...
"CDC recommends people to avoid cruise travel if they are not fully vaccinated and to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose if they are eligible. Additionally, CDC recommends people avoid cruise travel if they are atincreased risk of severe illness, regardless of vaccination status," the CD...
“If you are healthy,you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19,” the WHO guidelines read. And at first, the CDC agreed. After months of maintaining that healthy people didn’t need to wear masks in public to prevent the coronavirus, the country...
The CDCrecommendsa booster shot for all adults who were vaccinated withJohnson & Johnson'sJanssen COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago. That comes after the FDA concluded that even the highest estimates of the single-shot vaccine's protection were"consistently less"than ...
in-person classes "with proper prevention strategies" in place. The agency recommended that all vaccinated people consider wearing a mask if someone in their household was unable to be protected by the vaccine, like those with compromised immune systems or children who are too young to receive a...