CDC Issues 2024-2025 COVID, RSV, FLU Vaccination Recommendations

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has put out its updated recommendations for COVID, Flu and RSV vaccinations for 2024-2025.

CDC officials recommend that everyone ages 6 months and older receive an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine when these vaccines are available later this year.

The 2024-2025 vaccine is formulated to protect against currently circulating variants of COVID-19 and will protect people from the potentially serious outcomes of COVID-19 illness this fall and winter.

The CDC said vaccination continues to remain the safest and most dependable strategy to build immunity and protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death caused by COVID-19.

Additionally, the CDC recommends everyone 6 months of age and older, with rare exceptions, receive an updated 2024-2025 flu vaccine to reduce the risk of influenza and its potentially serious complications this fall and winter.

Most people need only one dose of the flu vaccine each season.

The updated 2024-2025 flu vaccine will be trivalent and will protect against an H1N1, H3N2 and a B/Victoria lineage virus.

The composition of this season’s vaccine compared to last has been updated with a new influenza A(H3N2) virus.

Finally, If you have not already received an RSV vaccine and are age 60 or older, CDC now recommends a single dose of RSV vaccine for everyone ages 75 and older and people ages 60–74 who are at increased risk of severe RSV, meaning they have certain chronic medical conditions, such as lung or heart disease, or they live in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.

The updated recommendation for adults 60 and older is intended to simplify RSV vaccine decision-making for clinicians and the public.

The CDC said the best time to get vaccinated is in late summer or early fall, before RSV usually starts to spread in the community.

However, eligible adults can get an RSV vaccine at any time.