But another metric of the shot's effectiveness, looking at protection against infections that result in outpatient visits to places like urgent care clinics or emergency rooms, was worse. Effectiveness was 32% for children and adolescents, from the CDC's U.S. Flu VEnetworkof health care sy...
But another metric of the shot's effectiveness, looking at protection against infections that result in outpatient visits to places like urgent care clinics or emergency rooms, was worse. Effectiveness was 32% for children and adolescents, from the CDC's U.S. Flu VE network of health care s...
Flu vaccine effectiveness in past seasons has ranged between 40 percent and 60 percent when components of most circulating viruses are "antigenetically like" those in a recommended vaccine, the report says. Effectiveness this season has been higher for children between the ages of 6 months and...
Hours earlier, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) had voted to support the boosters for all Americans aged 6 months and older. The COVID shots from Pfizer and Moderna will join the flu shot and newly approved RSV shots as part of a three-pronged public health str...
Early estimates on the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccines indicate they may be less effective at preventing hospitalization than in years past, based on data from South America, where the annual flu season occurs earlier. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
However, actual estimates of how well the vaccines are fending off flu cases and severe disease will have to wait until the spring, when results begin to be released from the CDC's ongoing vaccine effectivenessstudies. Last March, the CDCconcludedthat last season's "influenza vaccination did no...
Incredibly, even though most “flu” is not influenza and flu vaccine effectiveness is as low as 10%, public health authorities keep telling everyone from six months of age on up (including pregnant women) that the flu shot is “better than nothing” and the “best tool we have.” However...
"Masks have become political" says an author of the Cochrane Library study on mask effectiveness. "I can only tell you what the science is...I can't tell you whether they work or don't work. But it's more likely than not that they don't work." San Fransisco Gate Do mask mandate...
"Masks have become political" says an author of the Cochrane Library study on mask effectiveness. "I can only tell you what the science is...I can't tell you whether they work or don't work. But it's more likely than not that they don't work." San Fransisco Gate Do mask mandate...
The CDC states in its weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report, released Thursday, that:“Overall, the estimate suggests that the 2014-15 influenza vaccine has low effectiveness against circulating influenza A (H3N2) viruses.” It stated that the seasonal flu shot offered less protection because of th...