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Mar 1, 2024 · As part of the guidance, CDC provides active recommendations on core prevention steps and strategies: Staying up to date with vaccination to protect people against serious illness, hospitalization, and death. This includes flu, COVID-19, and RSV if eligible.
- Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated ...
Avoid medium- and large-sized in-person gatherings. Get...
- Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC
CDC recommends the 2023–2024 updated COVID-19...
- Interim Clinical Considerations for COVID-19 Treatment and ...
Clinicians should consider COVID-19 treatment in patients...
- Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated ...
Mar 8, 2021 · Avoid medium- and large-sized in-person gatherings. Get tested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. Follow guidance issued by individual employers. Follow CDC and health department travel requirements and recommendations. On This Page. Overview. Recommendations for Visiting with Others in Private Settings.
- What You Need to Know
- Recommendations for Everyone Aged 5 Years and Older
- Recommendations for Children Aged 6 Months—4 Years
- Recommendation for People Who May Get Additional Updated COVID-19 Vaccines
- When Are You Up to Date?
- How Well COVID-19 Vaccines Work
- About COVID-19 Vaccines
- Getting Vaccines If You Recently Had COVID-19
- Vaccination Received Outside the United States
•CDC recommends the 2023–2024 updated COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Novavax, to protect against serious illness from COVID-19.
•Everyone aged 5 years and older ‡ should get 1 dose of an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against serious illness from COVID-19.
•Children aged 6 months–4 years need multiple doses of COVID-19 vaccines to be up to date, including at least 1 dose of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional doses of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•COVID-19 vaccine recommendations will be updated as needed.
•People who are up to date have lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC.
Children aged 5 years – 11 years who are not vaccinated or have gotten previous COVID-19 vaccine(s)
Children aged 5 years – 11 years who are unvaccinated or have previously gotten a COVID-19 vaccine before September 12, 2023, should get 1 updated Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
People aged 12 years and older who are not vaccinated
Moderna Novavax
People aged 12 years and older who got previous COVID-19 vaccine(s)
Vaccine Overview Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines Pfizer-BioNTech VaccineModerna VaccineNovavax Vaccine ‡12 years and older: People aged 12 years and older who have not previously gotten any COVID-19 vaccine doses and choose to get Novavax should get 2 doses of updated Novavax vaccine to be up to date.
Children Who Are Not Vaccinated
Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Overview Moderna Moderna Vaccine Overview
Children Who Got Previous COVID-19 Vaccine(s)
One Previous Dose Two or More Previous Doses Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Overview Moderna One Previous Dose Two or More Previous Doses Moderna Vaccine Overview
People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised may get additional doses of updated COVID-19 vaccines. Talk to your healthcare provider about additional updated doses.
Everyone aged 5 years and older
You are up to date when you get 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine.‡
Children aged 6 months—4 years
You are up to date when you get all recommended doses, including at least 1 dose of updated COVID-19 vaccine.
People who got the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine
You are up to date when you get 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine.
•People who are up to date have lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC.
•Additional updated COVID-19 vaccine doses can help restore protection that has decreased since previous vaccination.
COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States are effective at protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying. As with other vaccine-preventable diseases, you are best protected from COVID-19 when you stay up to date with the recommended vaccinations.
COVID-19 vaccines recommended for use in the United States:
•Pfizer-BioNTech
•Moderna
If you recently had COVID-19, you still need to stay up to date with your vaccines, but you may consider delaying your vaccine by 3 months.
Reinfection is less likely in the weeks to months after infection. However, certain factors could be reasons to get a vaccine sooner rather than later, such as:
•personal risk of severe disease,
•risk of disease in a loved one or close contact,
•local COVID-19 hospital admission level,
•and the most common COVID-19 variant currently causing illness.
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Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States: Interim Clinical Considerations Last Updated Jan. 18, 2024 Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases
Mar 5, 2024 · Vaccines. For the first time since 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its COVID isolation guidance. Specifically, it has shifted the recommendation that someone who tests positive for COVID isolate for five days to a timeline based on the progression of the person’s symptoms.
Apr 16, 2024 · Clinicians should consider COVID-19 treatment in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who have one or more risk factors for severe COVID-19. Treatment must be started as soon as possible and within 5-7 days of symptom onset.
Mar 8, 2021 · The new guidance also allows fully vaccinated individuals to forgo testing and quarantining following a known COVID-19 exposure, as long as they are not experiencing symptoms. The CDC...
Apr 27, 2021 · The CDC's guidance states that fully vaccinated people may do the following: Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing. Visit with unvaccinated people (including children) from a single household who are at low risk for severe COVID-19 disease indoors without wearing masks or physical distancing.
