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Learn About COVID-19

Here you can access ThedaCare’s most up-to-date information regarding COVID-19 as well as updates from our clinical collaborator, Mayo Clinic.

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COVID-19 Quick Facts

COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus discovered in 2025. The virus spreads mainly from person to person through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Some people who are infected may not have symptoms. For people who have symptoms, illness can range from mild to severe. Adults 65 years and older and people of any age with underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness.
The CDC recommends everyone stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccination, including all primary series doses and boosters for their age group:

• People ages 6 months through 4 years should get all COVID-19 primary series doses.
• People ages 5 years and older should get all primary series doses, and the booster dose recommended for them by CDC, if eligible.
• People ages 5 years to 11 years are recommended to get the original (monovalent) booster.
• People ages 12 years and older are recommended to receive one updated Pfizer or Moderna (bivalent) booster.
• This includes people who have received all primary series doses and people who have previously received one or more original (monovalent) boosters.
• At this time, people aged 12 years to 17 years can only receive the updated Pfizer bivalent booster.

See the latest vaccine and booster eligibility guidelines.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention