Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising among babies under 6 months old, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said. The agency is urging mothers to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of infection.
Covid-19 hospitalizations are rising among babies under 6 months old, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging mothers to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of infection in those not yet eligible for shots, Director Rochelle Walensky said.
While the elderly and people with weak immune systems remain at highest risk of Covid hospitalization, they can get vaccinated, unlike the very youngest patients. Walensky didn't cite figures from the study, which will be released on Thursday in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. One study showed that when pregnant women had two doses of an mRNA Covid vaccine, the kind made by Pfizer and Moderna, there was a reduction in the risk of hospitalization with Covid for babies under 6 months of age.
Covid isn't the only threat young children face this fall and winter. U.S. health-systems and children's hospitals are currently grappling with a wave of respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
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