Updates in this report include that all seasonal influenza vaccines for 2021 to 2022 will be quadrivalent and the composition of 2021 to 2022 influenza vaccines includes updates to the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and influenza A(H3N2) components. Providers should consult current ACIP recommendations ...
Recommendations for when you should get your flu vaccine remain the same – September and October are still considered the optimal times. August vaccinations aren’t recommended unless someone is in their third trimester of pregnancy or for children who will need two doses of the vaccine or those...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) continues to recommend routine yearlyinfluenzavaccination for everyone aged 6 months or older who has no contraindications, according to updatedrecommendationsfor the 2019–2020 influenza season. The recommendations were published online today inMorbidity...
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"We would expect to be addressing this gap in booster dose recommendations over the summer and into early fall," the FDA's Doran Fink told the panel. Coronavirus Pandemic Are you contagious? Here's when you're most likely to spread COVID, flu, RSV Are flu and COVID high now? Here...
The panel's recommendations usually are adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and become the government's guidance for U.S. doctors and their patients. This would be the first time the government has stated a flu vaccine preference for older adults. ...
U.S. CDC panel members said simply recommending the vaccine for everybody outweighed complications created by tailoring recommendations more precisely. "I'm strongly in favor of a universal recommendation," panel member and professor at Harvard Medical School Dr. Camille Kotton said. "Let's do...
U.S. Flu Hospitalizations Highest in a Decade December 11, 2022 The cumulative number of hospitalizations for the flu is at its highest point in this part of the influenza season since 2010-2011. So far this season, 26 people for every 100,000 in the U.S. have been hospitalized with th...
The findings,publishedthis week in the journal Health Affairs, are from a survey conducted in February 2022 examining the nation's trust in public health agencies in the wake of COVID-19. Asked how much they trusted "recommendations made to improve health in general" from various sources, doct...
Kotton thinks Americans have been confused about whether they should get the vaccine and thinks health leaders need to be clearer about the recommendations. “For me, this is a life and death situation for many of the patients that I take care of,” she said....