COVID, vaccine recommendations
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As a group of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meets this week to discuss Covid-19 vaccines and make recommendations on who should get the updated shot this season, a newly published analysis from dozens of researchers emphasizes the “substantial” benefits of broad vaccine recommendations.
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HHS and CDC announced five new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just days ahead of a scheduled meeting that's likely to discuss COVID vaccines and more.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine advisors to the CDC are set to hold a meeting on Thursday and Friday that could set out a new path for the country's vaccination policy.
The boss of Age Scotland has said she is concerned that the NHS criteria for vaccinating people against flu and Covid is "puzzling". The free flu vaccine will be offered to those 65 and over this winter, in line with last year, but Covid boosters will only be given to people 75 and over - as well as those who are immunosuppressed.
California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington on Wednesday issued unified recommendations on COVID-19, influenza and RSV vaccines that differ from those issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The nation’s four West Coast states on Wednesday recommended that all adults and children concerned about the respiratory season can receive the COVID-19 vaccine and other common inoculations.
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Yet she’s lost hours in her struggle to figure out whether and when she can get a COVID booster. Her doctor said she could—and should, she told me. According to her doctor, she wouldn’t need a prescription;
With children back in school and the cooler, autumnal months on the horizon, Ontario has announced it’s immunization schedule for COVID-19 and flu vaccines this fall season.
Confusion over vaccine recommendations in the U.S. has hit a boiling point as the responsibility for handling them has spilled onto individual states. Regulators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have long provided trusted national guidance on who should get certain vaccines and when.