Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has seen a resurgence of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since a number of airport workers tested positive for the coronavirus on July 20. Though many of the infected have been vaccinated, Shao Yiming, a researcher at C...
September 1, 2024Just the News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing new COVID-19 boosters, claiming that people who don’t stay “up to date” with shots – regardless of how many they’ve already taken –“are more likely to get very sick” while those who take th...
That's why today [Tuesday] the CDC is recommending an updated COVID vaccine for everyone over the age of 6 months. Again, it's to protect you from the serious consequences that this this virus still can have. MORE: CDC recommends new COVID booster for all Americans over 6 months amid ...
CDC recommends new COVID-19 booster shots The director advises that anyone 6 months and older should get at least one updated shot. September 13, 2023 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Protest in Iowa as lawmakers hold hearing on bill to remove gender identity protections ...
The boosters target the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant. That's no longer the dominant variant circulating, but those that are spreading widely are closely related, and health experts say this booster will still offer some protection. "This decision comes at a time when COVID-19 cases are once ag...
The CDC is recommending the new COVID booster shot universally for anyone older than 6 months after its panel of outside vaccine advisers endorsed it. Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joined CBS News to talk about the new booster ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked vaccine manufacturers to target the two currently dominant subvariants for a potential fall season booster dose. U.S. health officials are also urging people aged 50 or more to get a booster shot, adding that doing so would not pr...
The CDC's vaccine advisors on Thursday recommended updated COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target the latest Omicron subvariants, setting aside concerns about the lack of clinical trial data with the newly formulated vaccines. ...
The data comes as a pair of studies raise questions about whether the updated COVID-19 booster shots will be more effective than another dose of the original vaccine.
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued long and hard Thursday before endorsing giving booster doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to people 65 and older, long-term care facility residents and certain people with underlying conditions. ...