NEW YORK -- As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine wasn't very effective, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade. A new strain that dominated ...

Both the seasonal flu vaccine and the updated COVID-19 vaccine are recommended annually for nearly everyone ages 6 months and older to prevent severe respiratory illness, hospitalizations, and death.

We usually have to wait until winter approaches before we see an increase in cases of influenza, or the flu. But we have already seen a lot of flu this year, with 25,000 cases reported from January to ...