“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...
The agency's work group has been wrestling since last year with the prospect of narrowing federal recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines.In recent months, additional data was presented to the work group on prevalence of infection-induced immunity to the virus, long COVID, multisystem inflammatory s...
“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...
"Barring the emergence of a markedly more virulent variant, the FDA anticipates that the composition of COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated annually, as is done for the seasonal influenza vaccine." An FDA official said during the meeting that "there is an urgent need for alternatives ...
Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has seen a resurgence of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since a number of airport workers tested positive for the coronavirus on July 20. Though many of the infected have been vaccinated, Shao Yiming, a researcher at Ch...
The new COVID-19 shots come as health authorities have been gearing up for a campaign to promote other new vaccinesnow available for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, in addition to the annual seasonal influenza vaccine. "Today's announcement also means that we now have immunizations for al...
"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...
Protein vaccines have been used for years to prevent other diseases including hepatitis B and shingles. HOW WELL IT WORKS Large studies in the U.S., Mexico and Britain found two doses of the Novavax vaccine were safe and about 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. When the del...
CDC urges COVID vaccines during pregnancy as delta surges 1 of 3 | FILE - In this March 29, 2021 file photo, a worker readies syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Metairie, La. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get vac...
Members of the Covid-19 vaccine work group said they began studying the policy change in November. Under a risk-based recommendation, the CDC would continue to recommend two doses of Covid-19 vaccines each year for older adults — those over 65 — and to anyone with weakened immune functio...