Evening Edition: The CDC Lowers Recommended Age For Pneumonia Vaccine

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for the first time ever, announced they have lowered the recommended age for adults to receive a pneumonia vaccine from 65 down to 50. The lowered age is intended to protect against pneumococcal disease at the age when it is most dangerous. Also, medical specialists are now suggesting adults get a measles vaccine booster shot. FOX’s Tonya J. Powers speaks with Dr. Marc Siegel, senior medical analyst for the FOX News Channel and a Clinical Professor of Medicine and a practicing internist at NYU Langone Medical Center, who says he sees why the CDC has made this decision, shares tips on staying healthy while traveling and tells us what he learned from an interview with the head of the WHO. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Rachel Campo Stuffy.
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0:03.0	I'm Maria Barturomo, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:09.0	Thursday, April 10th, 2025.
0:11.9	I'm Tanya J. Powers.
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0:15.7	If you're old enough to remember Star Wars,
0:18.0	Three Mile Island, and the death of the King of Rock and Roll,
0:20.6	you're now in the recommended age category for a pneumonia vaccination.
0:24.9	We're seeing a lot more strep pneumonia out there.
0:27.8	We're seeing a lot more invasive streptococcus out there.
0:31.1	This was a particularly bad respiratory season,
0:34.2	all of which adds to the more protection, the better.
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0:59.8	A recent revamp of the guidelines surrounding pneumonia vaccinations may be news to a big chunk of the population.
1:06.5	Last fall, the CDC lowered the recommended age for the shot from 65 to 50.
1:12.0	For those born in 1975 or earlier, that means you.
1:15.8	First of all, the evolution of the vaccine is in a very positive direction.
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