Vaccine News
Hispanic Chamber launches ‘One School, One Vaccine’
It’s almost time for the kids to head back to class! The Colorado Springs Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has a plan to…
Headed Back to School in 2024: An Update on Children’s Routine Vaccination…
Routine vaccination rates for kindergarten children ticked down during the COVID-19 pandemic and have yet to rebound while exemptions from school vaccination…
College Students Most Affected by Meningitis B Know Strikingly Little About It
Meningococcal meningitis can strike healthy individuals unexpectedly and result in the death of one in 10 infected people, sometimes causing…
What the 9 human cases of bird flu in the U.S. so…
Four poultry workers in Colorado who recently contracted bird flu bring the total of human cases in the U.S. to at least…
Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds
A large new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long Covid. Scientists looked…
Six Colorado workers contracted bird flu, the most human cases in a…
Bird flu has infected six farmworkers in Colorado this month — the most in any state — as health officials…
1 in 10 people infected during pregnancy develop long covid, study finds
Nearly 1 in 10 people infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy developed long covid, according to a study published Thursday in the…
Why Aren’t More Boys Getting HPV Vaccines?
When his nine-year-old son went to a routine doctor’s appointment a few years ago, Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters, Ph.D., expected that he would…
Long COVID is showing up in Colorado death data, even as COVID-19…
COVID-19 is no longer in the top 10 reasons why Coloradans die, according to the state’s annual death data, but…
Bird flu seems to be slowly mutating to better infect humans. Experts…
In late March, a worker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed a case of pink eye. He eventually tested…
New mobile clinic to bring health care access to rural area, those…
Jefferson County Public Health is launching its first mobile clinic to take health care on the go. The clinic is inside…
Higher Covid-19 Vaccination Rates Linked To Lower Prevalence Of Pediatric Asthma Symptoms
Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates are associated with protection against children experiencing symptomatic asthma, according to the findings of a new JAMA…
Vaccines and social distancing saved 800,000 American lives from COVID, according to…
recautions such as shutdowns and social distancing, combined with the fast rollout of vaccines, saved 800,000 lives in the United…
Helping Hands to offer free vaccines in Pueblo
On Wednesday, Helping Hands plans to offer free vaccines for hepatitis, chickenpox, HPV, and Covid through their community fair. They…
What to know about the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines
The first phase of human trials studying a possible nasal COVID-19 vaccine has opened, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced. The…