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2024 Annual News Conference: Preventing Respiratory Disease This Fall and Winter

What to know

Experts discussed the importance of protecting people this fall with recommended vaccines against flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and pneumococcal disease.

CDC Update

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 — Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) kicked off the 2024-2025 fall vaccination season during a news conference. Experts discussed the importance of protecting people this fall with recommended vaccines against flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and pneumococcal disease. A number of CDC reports (links below) were released today to coincide with this event. Dr. Cohen and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who was also on the panel of experts moderated by NFID’s Medical Director, Dr. Robert (Bob) H. Hopkins, Jr, led by example and got their flu vaccines at the event.

Experts discussed the importance of protecting people this fall with recommended vaccines against flu.
Experts discussed the importance of protecting people this fall with recommended vaccines against flu.

Expert Quotes

  • "I wouldn't recommend something to the American people that I wouldn't recommend for myself, family and loved ones." – Dr. Mandy Cohen
  • "We have the power to shape how this season is going to go. The best thing to do right now is to get vaccinated." – Dr. Mandy Cohen
  • "Now is the time to make sure folks are protected against COVID, flu, and RSV. There's no time like the present to get those vaccines." – Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
  • "During the 2023-2024 flu season, there were between 380,000 and 900,000 flu hospitalizations. CDC estimates that flu vaccination prevented 105,000 to 240,000 hospitalizations. During the 2023-2024 typical respiratory virus season (October – April) there were an estimated 500,000-800,000 COVID-19-associated hospitalizations. COVID-19 vaccination likely prevented an additional 40,000-100,000 hospitalizations." – Dr. Demetre Daskalakis

Data Releases

Flu Vaccination Coverage

Flu Vaccination Coverage, United States, 2023–24 Influenza Season
This report contains CDC's final flu vaccination coverage estimates for the 2023–24 flu season.
Flu, Tdap, and COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women – United States, April 2024
CDC analyzed 2023-24 flu, Tdap, and COVID-19 vaccination coverage data among pregnant people.
RespVaxView
Get access to the weekly COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccination data.

2024-2025 Flu Season Updates

2024–2025 Flu Season
Review information about the 2024–2025 flu season.
Flu Resource Center
Access CDC communication resources to share information about the importance annual flu vaccination.
Preliminary Estimated Flu Disease Burden 2023–2024 Flu Season
Weekly, preliminary estimates of cumulative in-season flu burden in the United States.

Health Care Providers Update

Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024–25 Influenza Season
MMWR. Recommendations and Reports / Vol. 73 / No. 5 / P. 1–25
Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024–25 Influenza Season
MMWR. Recommendations and Reports / Vol. 73 / No. 5 / P. 1–25

COVID

Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2024–25 Influenza Season
MMWR. Recommendations and Reports / Vol. 73 / No. 5 / P. 1–25

RSV

Immunizations to Protect Infants
Information about RSV immunization to protect your baby from severe RSV illness.

Pneumococcal Disease

Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
CDC recommends pneumococcal vaccination for children, older adults, and people at increased risk.

* Note that COVID-19 circulates year-round, and these estimates don’t include hospitalizations outside the October-April period

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