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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized for emergency use the Labcorp Seasonal Respiratory Virus RT-PCR direct-to-consumer (DTC) Test for use without a prescription by individuals 2 years of age and older with symptoms…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released an updated version of the adult immunization schedule for ages 19 years and older in the United States. The…
Heterologous COVID-19 vaccination with the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2 vaccines increases in vitro neutralizing activity and may confer cross-protection against endemic seasonal human coronaviruses (hCoV), according to results of a study published in Clinical Infectious…
Influenza vaccination reduces the risk of serious illness in children even when the circulating virus is antigenically different from the vaccine virus, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in…
Among healthcare workers, the use of N95 respirators was associated with fewer viral infectious episodes compared with the use of surgical masks, according to results of a meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American…
The Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approval of Flucelvax® Quadrivalent (influenza vaccine) for active immunization in patients 6 months of age and older against influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has issued new guidelines for the prevention and control of seasonal influenza with vaccines for the 2021-2022 season. In general, routine annual vaccination…
Positive topline results were announced from a phase 3 study evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of Prevnar 20 (pneumococcal 20-valent conjugate vaccine) administered with the seasonal influenza vaccine (Fluad Quadrivalent [adjuvanted], 2020/2021 strains) in adults…
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