CDC Warns Providers of ‘Urgent’ Need to Boost Vaccination Against COVID, Flu, RSV

The CDC is warning health providers that there is an “urgent need” to increase vaccinations against influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In the past four weeks, hospitalizations among all age groups increased by 200 percent for the flu, 51 percent for COVID-19, and 60 percent for RSV.

In an alert published last week, the agency cautioned that low vaccination rates, coupled with ongoing increases in national respiratory disease activity, could lead to more severe disease and increased health care capacity strain in the coming weeks. Read more from The Hill here.