The country is clawing back toward where it stood before the COVID-19 pandemic. Steven Ross JohnsonDec. 19, 2024 What to Know: 1st ‘Severe’ Bird Flu Case The CDC said the case does not change its overall assessment that the immediate risk to the public’s health from bird flu remains...
COVID-19 cases rise in North Texas as FDA authorizes updated vaccine The XBB 1.5 variant is one of the most dominant variants we're seeing locally. Sep 11, 2023 FDA approves new drug to prevent RSV in children Fall flu and virus season is right around the corner, but this year, a new...
“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...
Pennsylvania, told local ABC News affiliateWNEPthat it's run out of beds due to an influx of children with respiratory viruses including COVID-19, flu and RSV in addition to other illnesses and surgeries.
In a unanimous 11-0 vote, the ACIP recommend that everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine, similar to last year's recommendation. The committee also voted unanimously that everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated 2024-2025 influenza ...
This change stands in marked contrast to previous recommendations, in which the CDC said that other vaccinations should not be administered within a 2-week window before or after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. "We believe flu vaccination is very important in the context of ongoing COVID-19 ac...
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Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, emphasized that these events were rare and that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweighed the risks. Moreover, comparing these to the numbers for flu "misses the point" when there are over 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 every day in the U...
at specific high-risk populations as some experts have suggested, and other countries have recommended. The shots are part of a push by public health officials to align the next COVID vaccines more closely with the actual circulating variant of the virus, much as annual flu shots are desi...
to CNN. “The overwhelmingly abundant evidence for this virus over the past 4 years tells us that it is a far more dangerous pathogen than flu, which lacks seasonality, is still evolving, has induced Long Covid in tens of millions of throughout the worlds, and cannot be ‘FLU-ified.’...