adults, or 34.8% of the adult population, have received the flu vaccine and nearly 11 million over the age of 60, 13.5% of this age group, have received the RSV vaccine. Meanwhile, 23 million children, or 4.9% of the pediatric population, have received the flu ...
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its new weekly report about the flu.The CDC said there have been 16 more flu-related deaths reported this week, bringing the total number of pediatric flu-related deaths
Last week also brought seven morepediatric deaths from flu, bringing the total to 37 so far this flu season, which began in October. Several high-profile pediatric deaths have made headlines in recent weeks, including12-year-old Dylan Winnick, who died Tuesday. His stepfather says the family ...
One of the states where influenza is "likely growing" is Kentucky, where pediatric infectious specialist Dr. Kris Bryant says she's seeing "extraordinarily high numbers" of positive cases in children. At Norton Children's Hospital, there were 3,000 positive cases just last week, she said, cal...
"If you look at communities, young children are the vector of flu," explains Chip Walter, MD, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Duke. "They bring it home to parents, grandparents and other family members. Studies have already shown that if you vaccinate school-age kids, you can ...
We are really probablynotaware that autism has its start while the child is still in the womb. Here's a scientist doing a study on whether the timing of the MMR shot can be connected to autism; who works for an agency that says vaccines don't cause autism; who believes autism starts ...
attributed the increase to better diagnosis and reporting. And earlier this month in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, James Cherry, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, suggested that the ...
At a Senate hearing Thursday, Walensky said her staff was working over the Juneteenth federal holiday weekend "because we understand the urgency of this for American parents." She said pediatric deaths from COVID-19 have been higher than what is generally seen from the flu each year. ...
A research team at Johns Hopkins led by Makary looked at 48,000 children under 18 diagnosed with covid-19, and found a mortality rate of zero among children without a preexisting medical condition, such as pediatric cancer. Indeed, there is no official government data to show whether any he...
Two more pediatric deaths due to flu were reported last week, bringing the total for this season to 14. “Flu hospital admissions reported through HHS’s hospital surveillance system, which were already high for this time of year, have nearly doubled during the last reporting period compared...