Posted on 12/16/2023 8:49:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent out a "health advisory" on Dec. 14 regarding "low vaccination rates" for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19.
The agency stated that the relatively low vaccination rates "could lead to more severe disease and increased healthcare capacity strain in the coming weeks" and "reports of increased respiratory disease have been described in multiple countries recently."
"Healthcare providers should administer influenza, COVID-19, and RSV immunizations now to patients, if recommended," the CDC stated.
The CDC is tracking "increased respiratory disease activity in the United States for several respiratory pathogens," but it made no mention of China or a rise in mysterious pediatric pneumonia cases in the country in recent weeks. The agency mentioned only influenza, RSV, and COVID-19.
"In the past 4 weeks, hospitalizations among all age groups increased by 200 percent for influenza, 51 percent for COVID-19, and 60 percent for RSV," it stated.
Historical data show that the recent increase COVID-19 hospitalizations appear to be relatively low compared with previous increases during the pandemic.
"Infants, older adults, pregnant people, and people with certain underlying medical conditions remain at increased risk of severe COVID-19 and influenza disease. Infants and older adults remain at highest risk of severe RSV disease; it is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the United States," the CDC bulletin reads.
Other than vaccines, health care providers should recommend antiviral medications for influenza and COVID-19 for all eligible patients, especially older adults and people with certain underlying medical conditions, according to the CDC.
However, recent surveys have shown that Americans appear to be showing signs of vaccine fatigue. One from the health policy research group KFF found that about three-fourths of respondents said they weren't concerned about getting COVID-19.
“With fall and winter holidays coming up, the possibility of a further wave of COVID-19 infections is looming with increased indoor gatherings and time with friends and family. Yet, most of the public is not worried about spreading or catching COVID-19 over the coming months,” the KFF stated.
It noted that 54 percent are “not too worried” or “not at all worried” about COVID-19 increases or hospitalizations.
There were 7.4 million fewer influenza vaccine doses administered to adults in pharmacies and physician offices than were administered during the 2022–23 influenza season, according to the CDC.
Nearly 16 percent of U.S. adults aged 60 and older were reported to have taken an RSV vaccine, and 36 percent of U.S. adults aged 65 and older took a COVID-19 vaccine for the 2023–24 period.
The CDC also stated in December that COVID-19 booster uptake is lower than it had anticipated for this season, and a member of the Food and Drug Administration's panel of experts said in September that he won't take the latest booster shot and wouldn't advise a healthy American younger than 70 to get it either.
“I think the goal of this vaccine is to keep people out of the hospital, keep them out of the intensive care unit and keep them from dying. That's the goal. That was always the stated goal. It remains the goal,” Dr. Paul Offit told a media outlet. “So who is it that's getting hospitalized? Who is it that most benefits? People who are elderly, people who have multiple comorbidities, health problems that put them at high risk, chronic lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. People who are immunocompromised and pregnant people. I think that those are the ones who most benefit.”
Earlier this month, a CDC study found that children who reported to pediatric center emergency departments with respiratory illness and were hospitalized were more likely to have taken COVID-19 vaccines.
The overwhelming majority of the young children in the study never received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That group of 6,377 far outnumbered the 281 children who received one dose and the 776 children who received at least two doses. Across the United States, most young children are unvaccinated. Of the unvaccinated children in the study, 44 percent were hospitalized. Of the vaccinated, 55 percent were hospitalized.
The study focused only on COVID-19 vaccines, not vaccines for influenza or RSV.
Pfizer has COVID-19 and RSV vaccines that are approved in the United States, while Moderna and Novavax have "bivalent" COVID-19 vaccines that are also approved by federal agencies.
“We are in the middle of the COVID fatigue,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said during an investor call on Oct. 16, according to media reports. “Nobody wants to speak about COVID."
Notably, Pfizer's stock recently fell to 10-year lows after reporting this week that its 2024 sales could be as much as $5 billion below Wall Street expectations, in part because of its weakened ability to move COVID-19 products such as vaccines and treatment drugs.
Zachary Stieber and Reuters contributed to this report.
They spent an entire year lying to people. Now, they’re alarmed that no one believes them anymore?
“Pregnant people”. The corruption of the Great Satan knows no limits.
The CDC director under Obama, Tom Frieden, once told America that “you cannot catch Ebola from a cough or sneeze.”
He was made to eat those words on TV by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It’s a very simple thing to see. Google “cough and sneeze” and see the videos.
That said, THIS is the type of directors CDC gets. Political hacks, and that Walensky woman was one of the worst. Under her aegis, CDC redefined what a vaccination is, helped Biden denigrate and deny credible medications that could be used against Covid, and completely abandoned CDC’s long-held position on herd immunity (because the VAXX actually causes Covid in many cases).
exactly
well said
Only the most rabid leftists are getting jabbed at this point. I’m good with that.
COVID fatigue...
SNORT.
Trust is the coin of the realm.
And Deep State is flat busted.
Do physicians have a responsibility to be vaccinated?
Tell it to the AMA.
The responsibility to be vaccinated is not absolute.
I took the 1st rounds of Pfizer and 1 booster 2 years ago. No more here either.
Are they including the 20 million illegals let in without health background checks?
Wait for the once eradicated childhood diseases to start coming back full steam.
EC
PFIZER used ONLY 23 people in the COVID trials of it’s
“VACCINES”.
THAT ALONE IS FRAUD
safe AND effective
Wait until in becomes part of climate change. The scumbag signed us over to the UN and the CDC in the event of another plan-demic
I hope that you all have sold your pfizer stock.
Triple vaxxinate all the illegals in the country.
Then line them all up for boosters.
Till then STFU CDC!
Funny.. vaccines are created through hypervirilization, aka gain of function.
What they have been threatening is another release.. something that will make us obedient to their frakenvaxxes.
Thank God RFK jr is running.. shedding some light on why big pharma should never receive a single taxpayer cent.
It’s the free market. Well not when presiding blank checks to big pharma.
Seems like this illustration is the CDC we might REALLY need. Way back in 2020 when I caught the COVID really bad, I was advised I’d never get it again. So far, that seems to have been the right advice.
digital prison
social credit score
its here
Please tell me why in need to trust the CDC any more.
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