CDC officials urge US flu vaccination after record child deaths last year
Source: The Guardian
Thu 18 Dec 2025 07.00 EST
Last modified on Thu 18 Dec 2025 07.02 EST
Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US. “Influenza activity is increasing in the US. The time to get vaccinated for this season is now,” Timothy Uyeki, the chief medical officer of the influenza division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in a call with clinicians last week.
The message comes amid diminishing access to and flourishing rumors about vaccines under Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, who has made false claims about the ineffectiveness of flu vaccines and overseen limitations on routine vaccines.
After a year of dramatic cuts to staff and programs at health agencies, CDC officials highlighted the need to continue monitoring variants such as the H3N2 virus subclade K – currently the top strain in the US – as flu season unfolds.
“It’s hard to say what will happen throughout the season, and that’s why we need surveillance to really track this,” Uyeki said. A child died of the flu in the week ending 22 November, marking the first known pediatric death this season, the CDC reported earlier this month.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/cdc-flu-vaccination
The microchips-in-the-vaccines crowd is gonna have head explosions.
This group managed to escape detection but they will probably be toast soon.
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