Vaccine News
CDPHE to send vaccine reminder texts and emails to Colorado parents and…
COLORADO (KRDO) — Beginning this week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will send text messages and…
This Back-to-School Season, We Can’t Forget Lifesaving Immunizations
The World Health Organization and UNICEF recently shared a jarring number: Nearly 25 million children globally missed out on doses of a…
Fact Check: Is Vaccine-Derived Polio Causing Spike in Cases in the West?
With the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic still being felt, the lockdown-weary public shudders at media coverage of new worrying…
The Best Time To Get Your 2022 Flu Shot, According To A…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, everyone 6 months and older should get their flu shot every…
Omicron-specific Covid booster shots are just weeks away. Here’s who will—and won’t—be…
Newly updated Covid booster shots designed to target omicron’s BA.5 subvariant should be available within in the next three weeks. That begs an…
Colorado deploys monkeypox dashboard amid “significant” case count
The Colorado Department of Public Health published an online dashboard Thursday to track rising monkeypox cases — and corresponding demographic data —…
The new U.S. monkeypox vaccine strategy offers more doses — and uncertainty
After a bumpy start, the Biden administration is trying to smooth out the vaccination campaign aimed at controlling the country’s…
Are monkeypox vaccines getting to people most at risk? It’s hard to…
About three months into the ongoing monkeypox outbreak in the US, there are more than 12,000 cases and counting. But…
A complicated fall vaccine campaign: Updated Covid boosters, flu shots, and how…
For the health officials who steer vaccination campaigns, it’s going to be a complicated fall. The U.S. plan to roll…
Novavax seeks U.S. authorization for COVID vaccine booster
Novavax Inc (NVAX.O) said on Monday it had filed for U.S. authorization for use of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose…
Polio Is Worrying Parents. Doctors Say Vaccination Is the Answer.
The news that the poliovirus has been found circulating in New York City wastewater fueled a wide range of reactions in city…
Why one Colorado doctor wants you to get the polio vaccine right…
As kids head back to school, they’ll need more than new supplies. Many students will be getting a new round…
‘Silent’ spread of polio in New York drives CDC to consider additional…
A polio case identified in New York last month is “just the very, very tip of the iceberg” and an…
With supplies low, FDA authorizes plan to stretch limited monkeypox vaccine doses
With the monkeypox vaccine still in short supply, the Biden administration is changing how the vaccine is administered in order…
A vaccine for Lyme disease is in its final clinical trial
Ticks that carry Lyme disease have been on the march, spreading into more forests and brush areas around the U.S….