to nearly 75,000 Americans killed in that year alone. Rural communities, where hundreds of hospitals have already closed and more are on the chopping block, are bearing the additional weight of overdoses. We need states to do more to protect Americans and ensure access to all overdose ...
Head of CDC gets COVID after getting new bivalent booster, leading to 'push back and mocking' 'Yes, Omicron changed the picture. But the data are clear: Unvaccinated die more, and are hospitalized more, and have worse outcomes' Get the latest from Sharon Kirkey straight to yo...
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earlier Thursday voted to allow several groups of Americans to get a booster shot, but voted not to recommend it for adults aged 18 to 64 who live or work in a place where the risk for COVID-19 is high. That would have included hea...
THURSDAY, May 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A panel of science advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent recommended on Thursday that a single booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine can be given to 5- to 11-year-olds. The move is expected...
As we head into the fall and winter, do you see a world where people should mask up again in crowded spaces and inside? COHEN: Well, as we get to the fall and winter, we're going to have not just COVID circulating, but remember, flu is out there, RSV – that impacts our young...
However, Walensky decided to make one recommendation that the panel had rejected. The panel on Thursday voted against saying that people can get a booster if they are ages 18 to 64 years and are health-care workers or have another job that puts them at increased risk of being exposed to ...
The CDC has endorsed an independent advisory panel's recommendation for seniors and other medically vulnerable Americans to get a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The adjusted recommendations come days after the CDC approved mix-and-match booster shots, where a person receives a different brand dose from their initial vaccination. Under this guidance, moderately and severely immunocompromised people who got the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines for their first...
vaccines. They are also advising people who have gotten the Johnson and Johnson vaccines to seek two booster doses rather than one. Dr. Mark Kline, the chief physician of Children's Hospital New Orleans, joins CBS News' Lana Zak to discuss this and other developments in the COVID-19 ...
"The refusal to get vaccinated costs all of us," Biden said. "I'm moving forward to vaccination requirements where I can. These requirements will cover two-thirds of all workers in America."