The flu vaccineis now available in some locations. A new COVID-19 booster has been approved by federal health officials. And new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines are recommended for some. It's important to get the flu shot in September or October, said infectious disease s...
That said, you’re not alone if you have reservations about vaccine co-administration. Most U.S. adults 18 and older (61%) wouldn’t or are unsure if they’d get their COVID and flu vaccines together, according to a survey conducted in August by the National Foundation for Infectious Di...
during a GSK trial in which the RSV and flu vaccines were administered together. The patients developed something called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a sudden attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal chord. These were the only cases of the disorder among 15,000 vacc...
If you’re eligible for only a single Covid shot per year:Young children getting their first Covid shots need two doses of Moderna’s pediatric vaccine or three doses of the Pfizer version. The only other people currently entitled to get more than one Covid shot per year are people who...
The challenges of using the antibody shot and the maternal vaccine are myriad and in some respects ironic. For years there were no tools with which to combat RSV, which is the most common cause of hospitalization of children under the age of 1 in this country, leading to between 58,000 ...
Buoyed by the success of its COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna has started a phase 1/2 trials of its mRNA-based shot for seasonal influenza, targeting four different flu strains. The first patents have now been enrolled into the study of the shot – codenamed m
Attempts to produce an RSV date back to the 1960s, but initial efforts were unsuccessful because they were marred by an ineffective vaccine. Scientists at the time had developed an RSV shot that induced a severe—and in two cases lethal—lung inflammatory response during the first natural RSV ...
RSV, COVID-19 and the flu have several commonalities. All three are most dangerous for the young and the elderly. All are respiratory viruses. And immunity, even after natural infection, is not lifelong2. If more RSV vaccines can be realized, perhaps a combination vaccine could follow. As ...
Everyone 6 months and older is also urged to receive the annual flu shot. Adults ages 60+, pregnant, or parents of an infant are urged to check with a doctor to determine if an RSV vaccine is right for them or their child.Who Has Access to Vaccines?Everyone...
Children who are receivingflu vaccinefor the first time need two shots a month apart, he said. It makes sense to start them early. Kullar and Gluckman wondered whether older adults who get shots early might need a second dose later in the year. "It's probably prudent at least for higher...