LIVE: US health officials hold briefing on fall and winter viruses

Get vaccinated and if we're focused on those most likely to get really sick from COVID and RSV. At CDC our work prepare for the fall and winter started even before last season was over. Rare clinicians needed more support. CDC worked with partners with deep reach into the most at-risk populations. We certainly made it easier as we go into this this season for clinicians to pre-order vaccines for the upcoming season both from the vaccines for children's program and from manufacturers. Thank you. We created streamlined educational materials with our clinician partners and we work with electronic health record scheduling platform and clinic representatives. You do not have to stay. No conflicts. Paul Conway from AAPP. Patty Costello is not attending. Present. No conflicts. Okay. Thank you, Paul. Yeah, thanks. Mark Rossi from American College of Occupational Environmental Medicine. Elizabeth Wick, ACS. Chris Lombardosi from America's Essential Hospital. Present. No conflicts. Crystal Bowens, American Health Care Association. Present. No conflicts. Nicole Genseley, American Nurses Association. Present. No conflicts. Karen Dekay, Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses. Present. Mary Alice Lavin, Association of Professional of Infection Control and Epidemiology. Present. Emily Emerson, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Aaron Edson, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Ronald Myberg, DNV. William Ago, Infectious Disease Society of America. Benjamin Swartz, National Association of County and City Health Officials. Present. Kenna Hinkle, National Rural Health Association. Eve Cooney, Organization for Safety, Substance and Prevention. Karen Robin, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. Present. Thank you for joining. Lisa McGifford, Patient Safety Action Network. Present. Risa Mauricio, Society of Critical Care Medicine. Hilary Babcock, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Present. Stephanie Taylor, Society of Hospital Medicine. This is Valerie Vaughn, representing Society of Hospital Medicine. Thank you, Valerie. Robert Sawyer, Surgeon for Infectious Society. Present. Thank you. Tiffany Wixken, the Joint Commission. Present. And if I've missed any liaison representatives, please, you know, this is your time to announce yourself and organization. Okay. Thank you for joining. I would like to establish a forum. We have met meeting forum. We have not met voting forum. Public comment is scheduled for after the presentation. When the comment period opens, the coordinator will provide instructions for how members of the public may provide comment. Public comment should be limited to three minutes. And we ask that you clearly state your name and organization for the record before providing your comment. Please note that the public comment period is not a question and answer session. Public comment will be after the presentations. And also, if you are not selected for public comment today, you can please submit your written public comment to the HCPAC inbox, which is HCPAC at CDC.gov. All right. I'll hand it over to you, Alex. Great. Thanks, Sydney. And welcome everyone to the August virtual HCPAC meeting. I'm going to just start off with a few quick announcements. I want to remind everyone that nomination for membership in the Health Care Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee is open. Please, if you have suggestions, send those to our box at HCPAC at CDC.gov before September 29, 2023. Also wanted to highlight that we are now posting the HCPAC presentations to the HCPAC website. We will also be doing that for the presentations from today after the meeting, and we'll also be sending those out to all registrants after the conclusion of the meeting today. I also have a special announcement. We are still having some challenges with some of our packages for members. And so I think, as you all, many of you recognize, we have not had a chair for the past meeting and this meeting. In light of the fact that we expect that to continue, we have elected to appoint an interim chair for the committee. So I'm happy to announce that Sharon Wright, who has been a member for a while, will be our interim chair probably from now until the end of the year. I think everyone, many people know Dr. Wright. She is the Chief Infection Prevention Officer for the Beth Israel Leahy Health System and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, is on faculty.