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County physician urges vaccination as updated COVID, influenza and RSV shots roll out
Summary
A Cochise County Health Department physician reviewed this season’s COVID-19, influenza and RSV vaccine recommendations, effectiveness data and dosing by age, and urged vaccination and prenatal RSV immunization to protect infants.
Dr. Eric McLaughlin, a physician presenting for the Cochise County Health Department, reviewed this season’s updated vaccines for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and urged residents to be vaccinated to prevent severe illness.
Dr. McLaughlin said the 2024 COVID-19 vaccine targets the JN1 lineage and the KP2 strain and that for people ages 5 through 65 and older the guidance this season is “1 dose regardless of prior vaccine status.” He told the meeting that children 6 months to 4 years who are previously unvaccinated should receive two doses of Moderna or three doses of Pfizer, and that “65 and older…an additional updated vaccine following the 2023–24 dose.”
Why it matters: McLaughlin stressed that while vaccines do not always prevent mild symptomatic infection, they reduce severe…
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