Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines. A lot of older adults need protection against another risky winter virus, RSV, too. 2 of 10 | A pharmacist holds a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in New York, Tuesday, Sept....
While the public has grown accustomed to calling additional shots "boosters," health officials are now moving away from the word "booster," instead calling this year's shots the "2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine" or simply the "updated COVID-19 vaccine." This clarification helps distinguish previous...
"We would have the same vaccine strain composition for all spike based COVID-19 vaccines, which would hopefully allow one to have interchangeability," said Marks. Time is running out for the switch. While boosters for most Americans used an updated bivalent recipe targeted to the BA.4 and BA...
"Covid vaccines, I've only been taken by 18 percent of the adults, the boosters, so which is really low," she said. "And we have the flu vaccine and the flu vaccination rates are also not very high they are at 40 percent." With more people gathering indoors due to...
The CDC urges both an updated COVID-19 shot and yearly flu vaccine for everyone ages 6 months and older. If you recently had COVID-19, you can wait two or three months but still should get an updated vaccination because of the expected winter surge. ...