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CDC Releases Emergency Guidance for Healthcare Facilities to Prepare for Potential Omicron Surge

Today, CDC is endorsing updated recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the prevention of COVID-19, expressing a clinical preference for individuals to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine over Johnson &

CDC Expands COVID-19 Booster Recommendations to 16-and-17-year-olds.

CDC Launches Two Global Networks, Awards $22 Million to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is revising the current Global Testing Order to shorten the timeline for required testing for all international air travelers to one day before departure to the United States.

Today, CDC is strengthening its recommendation on booster doses for individuals who are 18 years and older.

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On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new variant, B.1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and has named it Omicron.

Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) expanded recommendations for booster shots to include all adults ages 18 years and older who received a Pfizer-BioNTech or

Laboratory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today showed that recently discovered vials marked as "smallpox" contain vaccinia, the virus used in smallpox vaccine.