A child getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose.Photo: Getty The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that adults 18 and over choose eitherPfizerorModernavaccines over the Johnson & Johnson shot to get vaccinated againstCOVID. The announcementcomes after theCDC confirmed 54cases of people developing blood clots while showing low platelet levels — a rare condition known asThrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome(TTS). Nine TTS deaths were reported following the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine....

Photo: Getty The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new name for thevaping-related illnessthat has affected hundreds across the United States. In the last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, issued on Oct. 11, the federal agency referred to the disease as EVALI, which stands for “e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury.” According to the report, as of Oct. 8, 49 states, Washington D.C. and the U....

Dr. Rochelle Walensky.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/GettyThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it hadissued a new eviction moratoriumthat would last until Oct. 3, in the wake of a previous moratorium expiring over the weekend.The new moratorium, which will ban landlords from evicting tenants in only some parts of the country, came as the Biden administration faced intensifying criticism from progressives for allowing the earlier moratorium to expire on July 31. The White House, in its own defense, argued that its hands were tied due to a Supreme Court ruling....

A teen receives a COVID-19 vaccine.Photo: GettyMillions of teens are now eligible to receive a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine booster shot to help protect against the Omicron variant of COVID, theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention announcedon Thursday.“Today, CDC is strengthening its booster recommendations and encouraging everyone 16 and older to receive a booster shot,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.“Although we don’t have all the answers on theOmicron variant, initial data suggests that COVID-19 boosters help broaden and strengthen the protection against Omicron and other variants,” Dr....

Monkeypox virions.Photo: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via APThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified10 cases of monkeypoxacross eight states as of Friday.Health officials confirmed that cases of the rare virus have been reported in California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington.“A monkeypox outbreak of this scale and scope across the world has not been seen before,” Dr. Raj Panjabi, who is leading the White House’s monkeypox response, said in a briefing Thursday....

Photo: BSIP/UIG Via Getty ImagesTwo children in the United States have been diagnosed with monkeypox, according to health officials.On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the cases are a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident. Health officials say both children are being treated and are in good health, likely contracting monkeypox through household transmission.Additional details of the cases have not been released....

Monkeypox.Photo: GettyTwocases of monkeypoxwere confirmed in Salt Lake County, Utah on Wednesday.The Salt Lake County Health Department originallyreportedtwo “probable” cases of the virus based on preliminary testing on Monday.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the diagnoses after additional testing, according to a press release from Salt Lake County.The two infected individuals — who live in the same household — are in insolation and “experiencing mild illness.” There currently “do no present a risk to the public,” health officials said....

Photo: GettyAn inmate at a Colorado prison has been confirmed as the first person in the United States to test positive for the current strain of bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI) after direct exposure to infected poultry, health officials confirmed Thursday.TheU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) and theColorado Department of Public Health and Environment(CDPHE) say the man, who is under 40, only reported fatigue as his symptoms and he is in isolation while being treated with the antiviral drug oseltamivir....

Monkeypox.Photo: Getty The United States has reported its first case of the monkeypox this year after a Massachusetts resident was diagnosed following a trip to Canada, theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) confirmed Wednesday. The rare virus, named because it was originally found in colonies of monkeys used for research, first causes fever, headache, muscle aches, chills and swollen lymph nodes, and after one to three days patients develop a rash that spreads over the body....

Dr. Rochelle Walensky.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty The director of the Centers for Disease Control and top health experts spent the weekend defending the agency’s decision tolift mask requirements for fully vaccinated people, emphasizing that only unvaccinated people are at risk without a mask. Amid concerns that unvaccinated people would abuse the new mask recommendations and worries that it was too early for Americans to start going without them, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that fully vaccinated people are at a very low risk of COVID-19 infection....

Children are learning all about the COVID vaccines. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the Pfizer-BioNTechvaccine for emergency use in childrenages 5 through 11. The final step in its authorization will now allow this age group to receive two smaller doses of the vaccine (10 micrograms compared to 30 for people aged 12 and up) using smaller needles, given 21 days apart. The CDC’s decision now makes Pfizer’s COVID vaccine the first in the country available to children under 12....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is explaining the reasoning behind thenew COVID-19 isolation guidelines.On Wednesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appeared on bothCBS Morningsand CNN’sNew Day, sharing that health officials hope the guideline change will make it easier for people to willingly isolate themselves.“We really do need people to follow these recommendations for them to work. But I would also say that those people who are not masking, who are out and about are probably not the ones isolating either,” she noted....

Dr. Rochelle Walensky.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/GettyThe director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging people to stay vigilant aboutCOVID-19safety precautions as more variants of the virus are spreading across the nation.During a White Housepress briefingMonday, Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned that the United States is at risk of losing its progress in fighting the pandemic due to the contagiousvariantsand some communities rolling back prevention measures.“Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained,” Walensky said....