CDC Updates COVID-19, Influenza Vaccine Recommendations for 2024-2025 Respiratory Virus SeasonJennings, SydneyPatient Care (Online)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a second dose of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine, administered 6 months after the first
But vaccination rates remain low. According to the latest federal estimates from the beginning of May, just 22.5 percent of adults reported received a 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine since they began rolling out in mid-September 2023.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, expanding the recommended time between the initial two vaccine doses to eight weeks for certain people. ...
ACIP will face a two-part task after the FDA clears COVID-19 vaccines, saidNancy Messonnier, MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. ACIP will need to first decide whether to recommend use of the vaccine and then address the "complicated and dif...
Children 6 months and older, as well as adults, should get the Covid vaccine, plus boosters, when they are eligible for it, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said in an unanimous vote. The CDC's advisory committee meets every year to review the vaccination schedule and make...
“No vaccine is 100% protective against COVID, but (breakthrough infections) are very rare.” Benjamin, who is also an infectious disease expert and former secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, weighed in on what people should know: ...
Vaccine efficacy has fallen from 75% at first to just over 50% among long term care facility residents, Oliver said. These were the first people vaccinated after the shots became available in December and January. "The data we have seen today has demonstrated that Covid vaccines continue to ...
Once people with COVID do return to "normal activities," they should still take precautions over the next five days to help stop spreading the infection to others. Those precautions include "enhancinghygiene practices, wearing a well-fitting mask, keeping a distance from others and/or getting te...
By now, nearly all Americans have had a COVID infection, gotten a COVID vaccine or both, but the updated vaccines offer a timely boost as immunity wanes and the virus continues to evolve, the CDC said. "Professionals and the public in general do not understand how much this virus has mu...