The BA.2 Omicron lineage was estimated to be 23.1% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of March 12, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday. Scientists are tracking a rise in cases caused by BA.2, which is spreading rapidly in parts […]
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Does the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine provide less protection to children aged 5 to 11 than to adolescents 12 to 17? A study from New York state released Monday suggests that’s the case. But new data from 10 states released Tuesday tell a different story. The data, published by the Centers for Disease Control […]
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued long-awaited new guidance Friday on when Americans should consider wearing masks to protect themselves against Covid-19. Under the new guidance, roughly 70% of the U.S. population can now contemplate removing their masks. The guidance lays out a system that designates individual counties as being […]
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has only published a fraction of the data it collected about the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported, citing several people familiar with the data. The CDC published information about the effectiveness of boosters for people under 65 two weeks ago but didn’t provide data […]
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Protection against COVID-19 waned 4 to 5 months after a third dose of Pfizer (Comirnaty) or Moderna’s (Spikevax) vaccine, with steeply declining protection against emergency department (ED) visits as well as hospitalization during Omicron, researchers found. During the Omicron period, vaccine effectiveness (VE) against ED or urgent care visits was […]
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Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, CDC is shortening the recommended time for isolation for the public. People with COVID-19 should isolate for 5 days and if they are asymptomatic or their symptoms are resolving (without fever for 24 hours), follow that by 5 days […]
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The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices earlier Thursday voted to allow several groups of Americans to get a booster shot, but voted not to recommend it for adults aged 18 to 64 who live or work in a place where the risk for COVID-19 is high. That would have […]
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A nationwide study of more than 3,600 adults found the Moderna vaccine does a better job at preventing COVID-19 hospitalizations than the two other vaccines being used in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Protection said Friday. “Among U.S. adults without immunocompromising conditions, vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 […]
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Un estudio dirigido por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC) encontró que la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Moderna es más efectiva contra la hospitalización, pero las de Pfizer y Johnson & Johnson también protegen bien. Un estudio de cabeza a cabeza de las […]
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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its latest round of recommendations regarding seasonal influenza vaccines, the document contained one notable update: flu vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines can now be given simultaneously. This change stands in marked contrast to previous recommendations, in which the CDC said that other vaccinations […]
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