A majority of the agency's COVID-19 vaccine work group now backs narrower "risk-based" recommendations.
“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...
"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 ...
Those advisers had already been weighing whether and how to narrow the agency's COVID-19 vaccine recommendations to only older adults and other people with an underlying condition that put them at risk of more severe illness from COVID-19. Kennedy's announcement also goes further than the ad...
CBS Top News｜美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）正考虑停止提供普遍适用的COVID疫苗接种建议 A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work group on COVID-19 vaccines now supports ending the agency's pandemic-era recommendation for virtually all Americans to get vaccinated against ...
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...
Although the CDC's vaccine advisory panel only looked at the Pfizer vaccine, the CDC "will address, with the same sense of urgency, recommendations for the Moderna and J&J vaccines as soon as those data are available," Walensky noted. ...
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...
“The robust vaccine safety surveillance system often identifies extremely rare adverse effects of vaccines after approval,” said Barouch, an infectious disease expert not involved in the CDC investigation. When the vaccine was approved in 2023, the FDA noted that its safety was evaluated in ...