CDC: Health workers should prepare for respiratory virus season

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reminding clinicians and other health care workers to take necessary steps to keep themselves and their patients’ safe during respiratory virus season. The agency urges workers to get COVID-19 and flu vaccinations and to monitor respiratory illness activity in their communities. Health care workers who are age 60-74 with certain health conditions, age 75 or older or are pregnant should talk to their provider about getting a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine. The CDC also recommends workers offer nirsevimab to prevent severe RSV for all infants under eight months of age or those eight to 19 months with certain risk factors. (AHA News article, 10/18/24)