The guidance prioritized certain populations for vaccines, including health care professionals, other essential workers, national security employees, people aged 65 or older, the incarcerated, Native Americans and those from "racial and ethnic minority populations." The news come...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have updated their recommendations for who should get pneumococcal vaccines as we head into cold and flu season.
more urgent by the emergency of new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus. Dr. Teresa Amato, the chair of emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens, New York, joins CBSN to discuss whether existing vaccines will be effective against more worrying new strains of the ...
While the FDA approves vaccines, the CDC needs to sign off on how they will be implemented in the United States. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky's green light is the final formality of the approval process. The vaccine will now be sold under the brand name as Spikevax. The COVID-...
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It takes too long, Bresee says. "It's tempting to think that we can make a new vaccine for the strains that pop up late in the year like this, but flu vaccines take a long time to make," he said. "We decide what is going to be in this flu vaccine for this season in the U...
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Heeding advice from its special panel on vaccines, the FDA on Wednesday moved to approve a third dose of the US drugmaker’s Covid-19 vaccine to be used on seniors as well as “individuals 18 through 64 years of age and at high risk of severe Covid-19.” It has also been approved...
New York City has its own plan to get everyone vaccinated. The city will provide vaccination buses at beaches and parks to offer free vaccines during the weekend. “We’re going to go the extra mile, whatever it takes,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “You’re going to see our vaccine bu...
The flu vaccines are good at preventing severe outcomes, he said, but they don’t do much to stop the virus’ spread. “It keeps you out of the emergency room, the hospital, the intensive care unit and the cemetery. It’s not very good at interrupting transmission, and it is not very...