(CNN) -- Overall effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines has not dropped much yet for most vaccinated Americans, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers were told Monday. CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met Monday to discuss the potential eventual need for boost...
New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering up-to-date insights into the effect of the Delta variant on vaccine effectiveness. The reports indicate unvaccinated people are still 10 times more likely to suffer hospitalization or death from COVID-19 compared ...
Less than half of Americans plan to get COVID or flu vaccines this year, survey findsTheeffectivenessof this year's influenza vaccine was lower in South America than last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, which might be a clue to how much protection the...
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) endorsed new COVID-19 and influenza vaccines for the 2024-2025 respiratory virus season on Thursday. In a unanimous 11-0 vote, the ACIP recommend that everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine,...
Fewer health care workers are getting the most recent COVID-19 booster. Findings from a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show 15.3 percent of the roughly 8 million health care workers in hospitals have gotten the most
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst unveiled a scathing report on the effects of telework on the federal government Thursday, citing multiple instances of abuse and failures stemming from the widespread use of the practice. Read More Operation Warp Speed Official Questions COVID Vaccine Purity, Worries ...
“…the number of reported COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases is likely a substantial undercount of all SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons,” the report states. “The national surveillance system relies on passive and voluntary reporting, and data might not be...
Fatimah S. Dawood, MD, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, and colleagues present preliminary estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness in an articlepublished onlinetoday inMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. ...
In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC analyzed bivalent mRNA vaccine efficacy against existing COVID variants.
“Covid in children leads to missed school for themselves and their communities,” Oliver said. “And wide use of an effective vaccine would reduce the public health burden of Covid in children 5 through 11 years of age.” — Robert Towey ...