one we re tracking most closely is a drerivative of ba.5, so ou vaccines should do a good job of holding up against this new subvariant. this has been a highly kind of unpredictable virus. we have seen it evolve over time. and the good news is that we have, you know, as the virus changes, we have been able to keep up. so the new vaccines keep up. i suspect that there may be another vaccine next fall. but we re getting into a tempo where for majority of people it is going to be a once a year updated vaccine. is there a potential for an rsv vaccine? there are a couple of companies that are pretty far along in developing rsv vaccines and that data is not out yet. we ll see what happens. i m hopeful we ll have an rsv vaccine by next fall. but we ll have to see how the science and data goes and really be driven by that. it would be amazing to be speaking here in a year and to be saying that the solution is that we should be vaccinated for
include covid shots in the vaccines for children program creating a safety net for the cdc to buy and provide vaccines for poor and uninsured children before the federal government ends covid vaccine funding. the votes come amid warnings of a possible winter surge in cases as some subvariant of omicron ce to emerge. 1/3 of school children are vaccinated for covid. bret? bret: steve harrigan in atlanta. thanks. with halloween just 11 days away, authorities are encouraging parents to double-check their children s treats as the big night approaches. officials at the los angeles international airport lax found thousands of suspected fentanyl pills disguised as candy. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has details. packaged as skittles,
The new Covid-19 Omicron subvariant XBB has become a cause of concern for health authorities after three people from Thailand tested positive in Hong Kong last week.
Health officials at airports are conducting random Covid-19 tests on passengers with respiratory symptoms from Hong Kong and Singapore to detect Omicron's new XBB subvariant, according to disease control authorities.