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COVID-19 Reports

Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022

This figure is a graphic describing guidance to help you make informed decisions to prevent severe COVID-19. This includes four steps: know your risk, protect yourself, take action if exposed, and take action if you are sick or test positive.

Continuing Education

This figure shows an image of vaccine vials with text describing a new MMWR report on evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine safety.

Current Weekly

Safety Monitoring of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 Years — United States, May 17–July 31, 2022

Also in this issue

Donor Human Milk Use in Advanced Neonatal Care Units — United States, 2020
Progress Toward Measles Elimination — South-East Asia Region, 2003–2020
COVID-19 Outbreaks and Mortality Among Public Transportation Workers — California, January 2020–May 2022

Surveillance Summaries

August 19, 2022
Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis, Histoplasmosis, and Blastomycosis — United States, 2019
A CDC report provides an update on the epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis in the United States. These fungal diseases are caused by inhalation of fungal spores and often mimic bacterial or viral pneumonia.

The figure is a map of the United States with color-coded, shaded areas representing regions affected by coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis. It reads, “Health care providers: Consider these fungal diseases in patients with community-acquired pneumonia not responding to antibiotics. More than 21,000 cases reported each year. Rates of hospitalizations and deaths are high.”

The figure is a graphic recommending vaccinating children with previous dengue infection living in areas where dengue is endemic.

Recommendations and Reports

December 17, 2021
Dengue Vaccine: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2021
ACIP recommends vaccination with Dengvaxia for children aged 9–16 having evidence of previous dengue infection and living in dengue-endemic areas of the U.S.

Supplements

April 1, 2022
Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey – United States, January-June 2021
This report summarizes information from nine federal data systems with indicators of children’s mental health during 2013–2019.

Additional Resources

MMWR Visual Abstracts

Page last reviewed: August 18, 2022

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