CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
But vaccination rates remain low. According to the latest federal estimates from the beginning of May, just 22.5 percent of adults reported received a 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine since they began rolling out in mid-September 2023.
Nearly all states are seeing COVID-19 vaccination rates in adults this year that are similar or better than this time last season, except for Idaho, the CDC's survey data suggests. Rates among nursing home residents getting a COVID-19 vaccine are also better this year: 27% werereported"up...
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
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 decision comes at a time when COVID-19 cases are once again climbing. Now, most people 6 months or older in the U.S. are eligible to receive this season’s COVID-19 vaccine, even if they have never been vaccinated against COVID-19 before,”Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chairman and ...
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 said.Less than a quarter of adults and around 13% of children have gotten a COVID-...
"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...
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 inoculations. The vaccine schedule represents...
“This Covid virus has changed, and you want the most updated Covid vaccine to protect you as we go into this winter season,” she said. “Second, we know that the protection that you get from either having Covid before or being vaccinated before decreases over tim...