Top 5 Takeaways Strategic Public Health Recommendations: Emphasis on vaccination and therapeutics to prevent severe illness, complemented by nonpharmaceutical interventions for exposure risk reduction and focus on high-risk individuals. Vaccination

Top 5 Takeaways Higher Incidence and Mortality in Public Transportation: Public transportation industries in California had 1.5 times the cumulative COVID-19 outbreak incidence and mortality rates compared to all industries,

Top 5 Takeaways Confirmed Case of Poliomyelitis in Unvaccinated Adult: In June 2022, an unvaccinated adult in New York developed paralytic poliomyelitis, marking a rare occurrence in the U.S., where

Top 5 Takeaways Significant progress in measles vaccination coverage: From 2003 to 2020, estimated coverage for the first and second doses of measles-containing vaccine (MCV1 and MCV2) in the South-East

Top 5 Takeaways Similar Adverse Reaction Frequencies: Children aged 5–11 years reported local and systemic reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster dose with similar frequency as after the second

Top 5 Takeaways Significant Increase in Hospitalizations Among Older Adults: During the Omicron BA.2 variant predominance, hospitalization rates among adults aged ≥65 years showed a threefold increase, highlighting the heightened

Top 5 Takeaways High Rate of Contamination: In a study, 70% of sampled household objects and surfaces in a home of two monkeypox patients tested positive for monkeypox virus DNA

Top 5 Takeaways Outbreak Identification: The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) reported a coccidioidomycosis outbreak among 7 wildland firefighters from two crews exposed near the Tehachapi

Top 5 Takeaways Elimination of Dog-maintained Rabies Virus Variant (DMRVV) in the US: The US eliminated DMRVV in 2007. However, between 2015-2019, three rabid dogs were imported from Egypt, where