On Wednesday, February 28, 2024, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)votedto recommend that individuals ages 65 and older get an additional dose of the2023–2024 formula COVID-19 vaccine. According to CNN, 11 individuals voted yes on this recommendation, ...
Adults age 65 and older — in addition to younger people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised — can receive a second 2024-2025 COVID vaccine 6 months after their first one. The CDC made this recommendation in October 2024.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday endorsed recommendation from its vaccine advisers for use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 18 years and older. The recommendation came after the U.S. Food and Drug Administr...
U.S. CDC panel members said simply recommending the vaccine for everybody outweighed complications created by tailoring recommendations more precisely. "I'm strongly in favor of a universal recommendation," panel member and professor at Harvard Medical School Dr. Camille Kotton said. "Let's d...
The article focuses on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation for an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose for older adults, aiming to protect this vulnerable population from severe illness and hospitalization due to COVID-19 infection....
"I think all of that needs to be weighed. And so that's why I hesitate to make it just a universal recommendation, even though I do support vaccination with the COVID vaccine," Sanchez said. Trying to come up with tailored recommendations could also be impractical to implement, CDC offici...
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sick. Some will die, and many will experience pregnancy and neonatal complications. We know that, because of COVID, some children will grow up without their mothers," the CDC's Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman said earlier this month, in apresentationto the agency's outside panel of vaccine ...
An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously on Saturday to recommend use of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. When CDC Director Robert Redfield signs off on the recommendation — as he is expected to do before the weekend is out — Operation...
Top health experts recommend you choose a COVID vaccine made with mRNA (like the ones from Pfizer and Moderna) rather than the J&J vaccine, which is made differently. Their recommendation is endorsed by the CDC and comes from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which reviewed the ...