COVID: CDC Reveals When to Expect Hospitalizations to Peak This Year

While the CDC said this winter peak is likely to be higher than the summer's, hospitalizations are likely to be lower than last year. Read More

Why You Might Need Two COVID-19 Shots This Season

S eniors and people who are immunocompromised should get not just one but two COVID-19 shots this respiratory virus season. That's the new recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ... Read More

Older adults should get 2 doses of the updated COVID shot, CDC says

The 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines are available, and the CDC recommends that adults over 65 and immunocompromised people get two doses, spaced six months apart. Read More

California’s COVID surge is finally over. But expect another spike in the coming months

California’s protracted summer COVID surge ... according to the CDC. That’s about as long as the 2022 midyear wave and twice as long as last year’s. COVID levels in wastewater in California ... Read More

When will the next COVID, flu surge start? Experts weigh in

October is typically the calm before the storm when it comes to respiratory viruses. But health experts say it’s not time to get comfortable. A surge in flu and COVID cases is likely on the ... Read More

New COVID vaccines are here. What to know about latest shots in wake of nation’s biggest summer surge

On the heels of the nation’s biggest summer COVID surge—test positivity peaked at 17.8% the week ended Aug. 10—help has arrived. The 2024–25 coronavirus vaccines, initially anticipated ... Read More

As winter COVID wave approaches, CDC recommends lower age for pneumonia vaccine

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday adopted new recommendations from their advisory panel to lower the age criteria from 65 to 50 years-of-age to receive the ... Read More

How Experts See This COVID and Flu Season Unfolding

“We expect this year’ s COVID-19 season peak to be similar to last year’s or lower.” The CDC is still analyzing COVID surveillance data from the summer ... 14 (the most current data ... Read More

CDC launches new way to measure trends of COVID, flu and more for 2024

That is defined broadly to capture infections from COVID ... current SARS-CoV-2 variants like XEC, details about its prevalence remain on a separate webpage deeper into the CDC's website. Read More

CDC chief pitches COVID-19, flu vaccines during Cleveland visit; here’s what to know about shots & a new at-home test

The tests, which will detect current ... on COVID-19, researchers are seeing that COVID-19 spreads year-round, with two peaks — one in summer and a larger spike in winter, the CDC’s Cohen ... Read More

The Covid-19 Pandemic

By Emily Baumgaertner Updated figures show that gross domestic product ... mild or moderate cases of Covid-19 from becoming more severe. Here’s what to know. Dueling Trump and Harris rallies ... Read More

COVID-19

As summer winds down, much of the U.S. is seeing the biggest COVID wave in at least two years, and hundreds of people are still being killed by the virus every week. According to a CDC analysis of ... Read More