Oct. 13, 2023 – About 7 million people within the U.S. have received the brand new COVID-19 vaccine because the country enters what health officials are currently calling cold, flu and COVID season.
The recent number is about 3 million shots higher than the number reported every week ago. However, uptake is about 600,000 doses behind last season.
CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, cited the 7 million vaccinations as she got her own COVID booster shot Thursday in California at a mobile clinic arrange at a senior community. The (San Jose, CA) Mercury News reported. The variety of 7 million vaccinations administered since September 12 was also reported by CNN And Reutersciting the US Department of Health.
In his weekly virus metrics update on his COVID data tracker On the web site, the CDC doesn’t typically report the variety of COVID vaccines administered. For the week ending Sept. 30, about 11% of all COVID tests reported to the CDC were positive, and the virus accounted for 1.6% of all emergency room visits.
“October is the right time to get vaccinated,” Cohen told the Los Angeles Times. “As we move into the late fall and winter … we expect to see more spread of COVID in November, December and January.”
This is the primary time through the pandemic that the country's strategy has been to supply an annual fall COVID vaccine, just like an annual flu shot. It can be the primary time the rollout of updated vaccines will depend on the private sector after the federal public health emergency ends. The rollout was marked by insurance problems and provide problems. The vaccinations needs to be provided with none co-payment by insurance firms or federal programs.
A Summary A study on COVID vaccines released this week by the CDC said COVID vaccines prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations and three.2 million deaths last 12 months.
“Currently, older adults (at least 65 years of age) and infants under 6 months of age are at highest risk for COVID-19-related hospitalization,” the report said. “During January 1 to August 26, 2023, COVID-19-related hospitalization rates for adults aged 75 years and older were two to three times higher than for the next younger age group (adults aged 65-74 years). Rates in infants younger than 6 months are similar to those in adults ages 65-74.”
The CDC recommends that everybody 6 months and older receive the brand new COVID vaccine, which is designed to raised protect against current variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.