Moderna's pediatric shots will join a vaccination effort that has slowed to a near-standstill in children 5 years and older. In the more than seven months since the FDA and CDC first signed off on Pfizer's shots for children down to age 5, more than a third of those ages 12 to 17 ...
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...
Immunization coverage was greater among the pediatric population, however, as nearly 60% of children aged 6 months to 17 years were vaccinated against influenza last year, compared with 42% of adults, the report found. “Influenza is constantly evolving, and it’s unpredictable,” said National ...
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
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 ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 10 more pediatric flu deaths were reported last week, bringing the total to 63children who have diedfrom the flu so far this season. Officials say it's possible that we could see several more weeks of increased fu activity before the epidemi...
CDC said it expects updated COVID-19 boosters for pediatric groups under 12 will come under review "in the coming weeks." This marks the first time the makeup of COVID-19 vaccines have been altered since their introduction in late 2020, and many ACIP members expressed reluctance about rubber...
Deaths from flu ranged from 5 percent to 9.3 percent of all deaths between Jan. 3 and Feb. 21, 2015, the CDC said. That's about average for an H3N2 flu year, Brammer said. Pediatric deaths were on the high side. The CDC said 141 children died in 40 states. Child deaths usually ra...
Five more children died from flu according to the CDC, raising the total on the season to 64 influenza-associated pediatric deaths. This year's flu season started early, hitting some regions harder than others, raising concern among health officials and Americans. However that may have also been...
"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 ...