“As a CDC director and a mom and wife and daughter, I wouldn’t recommend something to the American people that I wouldn’t do with my own family.”
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of complacency.
“Sadly, we lost 21,000 people to flu last season,” Cohen said, noting that vaccine hesitancy has worsened in recent years: “Last season, fewer people were getting the flu vaccine than they were pre-pandemic.”“Half of our young children in the ICU with COVID have no underlying conditions,” she noted, adding that the updated COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for everyone — even toddlers — over the age of 6 months.
The excitement about vaccines fades, however, when data from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases are reviewed.What to know about the RSV vaccine — before a ‘tripledemic’ strikes And while updated COVID-19 vaccines are strongly recommended, only 40% plan to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — and among adults age 60 years and older, only 40% plan to get vaccinated against RSV.
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