The article focuses on the revised vaccine recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in October 2009. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends revaccination of people who have prolonged increased risk for meningococcal disease every ...
Originally, Arexvy was the only FDA-approved RSV vaccine for older adults. However, since this approval, two other RSV vaccines have come to market. The Pfizer RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, is also a protein subunit vaccine. The CDC estimates the effectiveness of protein subunit RS...
Recommendations for when you should get your flu vaccine remain the same – September and October are still considered the optimal times. August vaccinations aren’t recommended unless someone is in their third trimester of pregnancy or for children who will need two doses of the vaccine or those...
public health expertsupdatedpneumococcal vaccination recommendations for adults 19 and older. The updated guidelines recommend that adults who have only had the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV) get a polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (PCV). ...
“There needs to be massive education,” warned Helen “Keipp” Talbot, an infectious diseases expert from Vanderbilt University, who was the sole ACIP member to vote against recommending the vaccine. Earlier in the day, Talbot questioned the value of approving the Pfizer vaccine, given the exis...
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, said the new recommendations make sense, now that the urgency of the pandemic has passed. "Public health has to be realistic," he told theWashington Postrecently. "In making recommendations to the public today, we ...
“The AstraZeneca vaccine is especially important because it accounts for more than 90% of the vaccines being distributed through COVAX,” Tedros added, referring to a WHO-led global vaccine-sharing scheme. “There is no question. COVID-19 is a deadly disease, and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vacci...
Trump has previously said the U.S. would use the military to distribute the vaccine, but officials from the White House and the U.S. Defense Department have disputed that.
Children whose families do not have international travel plans should get the first dose of vaccine at between 12 to 15 months of age, and the second dose between 4 and 6 years of age, the CDC advised. International travel plans bring a separate list of recommendations: ...
California is followed by Texas and Florida, with over 791,000 cases and over 717,000 cases, respectively. More than 190 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are being tracked by the World Health Organization, at least seven of which are in crucial phase three trials....