As rotavirus spreads this season, doctors worry that falling vaccination rates may endanger kids.
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Rates of the bacterial infection have gone up by 500% since last year, with babies and young children most at risk.
So far, fewer than half of US children and older adults have been vaccinated during this year’s high-severity flu season.
The summer 2024 COVID-19 wave is a good reminder that it’s important to get vaccinated with the updated shot.
Nearly 100,000 US children under age 5 are hospitalized each year for an RSV infection.
The newly approved RSV vaccine could be rolled out by fall 2023, in time for the typical winter surge in RSV infections.
While RSV can become severe for any child, it poses a particularly serious threat for the youngest babies and for high-risk children.
Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.
Pregnancy can be a confusing time, raising a number of questions for women. This includes what vaccines to have and which to avoid.
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