Older adults are advised to get two inactivated vaccine doses and a booster shot, or one-shot adenovirus-vectored vaccine plus a booster shot that is also adenovrus-based, or three doses of a recombinant COVID vaccine fo...
▲ A senior resident receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a vaccination site in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, March 22, 2022. Photo/Xinhua Its findings add to growing evidence that it is impera...
Patrick Nip, secretary for the civil service of the HKSAR government, said that under the COVID-19 pandemic, the elderly and RCH residents are the most vulnerable groups and are most in need of the protection conferred by the vaccines, urging the public to understand the risk of death faced...
An elderly woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a community in Beijing's Haidian district on March 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] Elderly people aged over 60are now recommended to receive vaccination against COVID-19 in China, said the National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday (April 1...
Is there an RSV vaccine? There are a few prevention tools forRSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, an illness that typically causes cold-like symptoms but can sometimes be severe, especially for infants and older adults. "(There's) avaccine for the elderlyfor people 60 and up," Gounder say...
There would be enough vaccines distributed during the two weeks from May 10 to give a first shot to half of Japan's 36 million elderly people, it said. Japan's immunisation campaign began in February, later than most major economies, and the Pfizer vaccine is the only one ...
to whether the summer of 2022 was a good time for the shift, Liang said it was not suitable because the vaccine booster and overall vaccination rates for the elderly group in China had failed to meet expectations at that time. So the country took that period to further strengthen elderly ...
China's health authorities say 90 percent of the country's senior citizens over 60 years old have had at least one COVID vaccine, and over 180 million senior citizens have got three doses. However, elderly people remain the biggest high-risk group. Wu Zhiwei, director...
elderly peoplevaccineThe rapid worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the newly emerged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in tens of millions of infections and over one million deaths. SARS-CoV-2 infection affects all age groups; however,...
"There is a concern that the vaccine may start to wane in its effectiveness," Collins said. "And delta is a nasty one for us to try to deal with. The combination of those two means we may need boosters, maybe beginning first withhealth care providers, as well as people in nursing hom...