CDC releases new guidelines on masks and vaccines this holiday season

MARIA: VACCINE EXPERTS FOR THE CDC WILL MEET EARLY NEXT MTHON TO DECIDE WHETHER TO RECOMMEND PFIZER바카라 게임 웹사이트�S COVID VACCINE FOR CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 5. HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS IS DR. ALI RAJA, THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE AT MASS GENERAL HOSPIL.TA THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. DR. RAJA: THANKS, MARIA. ED: GREAT TO SEE YOU. WE KNOW SOME PARENTS HOPED TO HAVE A VACCINE AVAILABLE FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN BEFORE HALLOWEEN. IT DOESN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T LOOK LIKE THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S GOING TO HAPPEN. YOU ARE NODDINGES Y SO IT IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. HIS THANKSGIVING MORE REALISTIC? DR. RAJA: I SURE HOPE SO. I THINK IT IS. THE FDA IS MEETING TO DISCUSS THIS ON OCTOBER 26 AND THEN IT GOES TO THE CDC, WHICH IS THE MEETING ON NOVEMBER 2 AND 3. HOPEFULLY SOON AFTER, WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET OUR YOUNGER KIDS VACCINATED, ASSUMING EVERYBODY SIGNS OFF. LOOKING GOOD. MARIA: PZEFIR RELEASED SEOM DETAILS ABOUT THIS VACCINE LAST MONTH. WE KNOW IT바카라 게임 웹사이트�S TWO SHOTS 21 DAYS APART, JUST LIKE THE ADULT VERSN.IO THE QUESTION SAYS WHY IS THE , DOSE SO MUCH SMALLER? IS IT SPLIMY BECAUSE IT IS KIDS AND THEY ARE SMALLER? DR. RAJA: IT IS A GOOD QUESTION, MARIA. IN THIS CASE, PFIZER ACTUALLY TESTED MULTIPLE DOSES. THE 30 MILLIGRAM DEOS IS WHAT THE ADULTS AND TEENAGERS GOT TO GET 10 MILLIGRAMS DOSE, THEY TESTED BOTH IN KIDS, AND IT TURNS OUT THE 3 M0ILLIGRAM DOSE AND 10 MILLIGRAMS DOSE BOTH HAD A GREAIMT MUNE RESPONSE, BUTHE T SIDE EFFECTS WERE LOWER, SO IT IS A WIN-WIN. LOWER DOSE WITH FEWER SIDE EFFECTS AND IT STILL WORKS. MARIA: AND SLLTI PROTECTIVE GET OK. ED: I KNOW THISAY M SOUND LIKE A PERSAUD QUESTION, BUT PEOPLE ARE CURIOUS WHAT YOU WOULD DO. YOU HAVE TWO CHILDREN AND THEY ARE BETWEEN FIVE AND 11. IF THIS VACCINE IS AUTHORIZED FOR THAT AGE GROUP, AS A FAMILY, HAVE Y AOUND YOUR WIFE DECIDED WHAT YOU WILL DO? DR. RAJA: WE HAVE. WE LOOK AT THE DATA WE HE.AV BUT HONESTLY, THE FDA AND CDC WILL LOOK AT THE DATA IN EVEN MORE DETAIL THAN ANY PARENTS WILL DO. IF THEY ARE APPROVING IT AND THEY SAY IT IS SAFE AND WORTH GETTING, WE WILL GET BOTH OOUF R KIDS VACCINATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE WANT TO KEEP THEM HEALTHY BUT ALSO WAN TTO KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL. IT HAS BEEN TOUGH THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS . MARIA: FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY SAFETY IS THE TOP PRIORITY. BUT HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO PARENTS WHO THINK THIS PROCESS IS MOVING TOO FAST AND THERE HASN바카라 게임 웹사이트�T BEEN ENOUGH TIME TO LEARN ABOUT SIDE EFFEC?TS THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE SAYING THAT DAN WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING. DR. RAJA: IT IS A TGHOU JOB THE FDA HAS. IT IS A TOUGH NEEDLE TO THREAD. YOU HAVEO T GET THE VACCINES APPROVED AND OUT TO EVERYBODY AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO KEEP THEM SAFE BUT YOU HAVE TO REVIEW THE SAFETY DATA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. SOME PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DRAGGING THEIR HEELS. SOME PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE MOVING TOO FAST. WE HAVE TO TRUST THE PROCESS AND KNOW THAT THEY ARE GOING BYLL A THE DATA AND INFORMATION THEY HAVE. ED: THANK Y

Get your holiday themed masks and porch heaters ready.Masks and outdoor gatherings will still be the best way to make holiday gatherings safe this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in new guidance.The CDC's number one advice is for all those who are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine before people get together and travel at the holidays. For kids ages 11 and under who aren't yet eligible to get the vaccine, the CDC recommends all those who will be around them over the holidays be vaccinated to protect them.Unvaccinated adults in the U.S. face an 11 times higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated individuals and a six times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 according to new data published Friday from the CDC.For indoor gatherings, people should still wear masks, especially the unvaccinated.Outdoors is still considered safer than indoors for gatherings. Families may want to take additional precautions before they get together, and get tested. The CDC also suggests people avoid crowded spaces before traveling.The guidance this year is not holiday-specific like it was last year. The guidance published Friday comes after some confusion earlier in the month when the CDC published an update to its holiday pages on its website. The CDC said at the time that it was just a technical update to the page.After a recent downturn in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past month, some public health experts have warned that the U.S. could see another spike in cases this winter, particularly around the holidays."I think we're making some important progress in terms of increasing vaccinations, but the fact of the matter is there are still dangerous gaps in immunity throughout the country, and as long as that's the case, there are still pathways for the virus to spread," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security."I'd like to think that the worst is behind us, just given how much we've already endured in terms of high numbers of cases but also increasing progress in increasing vaccination. So I don't think that a rise in cases in the winter will be as bad as last year's winter surge, but there's nothing built into the decline that means that the momentum will be sustained. What we will see is really up to us."By masking up and getting vaccinated, families have much better options than last year when the CDC had steered people away from travel and gathering in person in the era before vaccines."By working together, we can enjoy safer holidays, travel, and protect our own health as well as the health of our family and friends," the CDC said.

Get your holiday themed masks and porch heaters ready.

Masks and outdoor gatherings will still be the best way to make holiday gatherings safe this year, the said Friday in new guidance.

The CDC's number one advice is for all those who are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine before people get together and travel at the holidays. For kids ages 11 and under who aren't yet eligible to get the vaccine, the CDC recommends all those who will be around them over the holidays be vaccinated to protect them.

Unvaccinated adults in the U.S. face an 11 times higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated individuals and a six times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 according to new data published Friday from the CDC.

For indoor gatherings, people should still wear masks, especially the unvaccinated.

Outdoors is still considered safer than indoors for gatherings. Families may want to take additional precautions before they get together, and get tested. The CDC also suggests people avoid crowded spaces before traveling.

The guidance this year is not holiday-specific like it was last year. The guidance published Friday comes after some confusion earlier in the month when the CDC published an update to its holiday pages on its website. The CDC said at the time that it was just a technical update to the page.

After a recent downturn in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past month, some public health experts have warned that the U.S. could see another spike in cases this winter, particularly around the holidays.

"I think we're making some important progress in terms of increasing vaccinations, but the fact of the matter is there are still dangerous gaps in immunity throughout the country, and as long as that's the case, there are still pathways for the virus to spread," said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

"I'd like to think that the worst is behind us, just given how much we've already endured in terms of high numbers of cases but also increasing progress in increasing vaccination. So I don't think that a rise in cases in the winter will be as bad as last year's winter surge, but there's nothing built into the decline that means that the momentum will be sustained. What we will see is really up to us."

By masking up and getting vaccinated, families have much better options than last year when the CDC had steered people away from travel and gathering in person in the era before vaccines.

"By working together, we can enjoy safer holidays, travel, and protect our own health as well as the health of our family and friends," the CDC said.

CDC releases new guidelines on masks and vaccines this holiday season

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