Vaccine News
Colorado parents to receive text alerts from the state about overdue immunizations…
With the school year beginning in a few weeks, some parents should expect to receive notifications from the state indicating…
Get childhood immunizations back on track after COVID
The effects of the pandemic mean childhood vaccination rates are the lowest for a generation. There is a risk of…
How social media is still contributing to vaccine hesitancy in the US
Social media gives people the power to instantaneously share and spread information across the globe. In the wake of the…
An additional 786,000 monkeypox vaccine doses will soon be available in the…
After weeks of mounting frustration over limited supplies of monkeypox vaccines, about 786,000 additional doses are being made available in…
Vaccine Rollout Was Weaker In Greater Black Populations And Rural Areas, Study…
Healthcare facilities in U.S. counties with higher Black populations were 32% less likely to offer Covid-19 vaccines than areas with…
Reformulated COVID vaccine boosters may be available earlier than expected
The Biden administration may scrap plans to let more younger adults get second COVID-19 boosters this summer. Instead, officials are…
Biden illness shows importance of vaccines, boosters
Just four days after testing positive for COVID-19, President Biden met virtually with administration officials, labor leaders and business executives on legislation…
More than 40% of parents of young kids say they will not…
New survey results published Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that 43% of parents of children under 5 in the US…
When will Novavax’s vaccine be available, and how can I get it?
The Biden administration is warning states to prepare for a “limited supply” of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine to be made available,…
CDC Recommends Novavax: Here’s How It’s Different From Other COVID-19 Vaccines
What’s happening The CDC has recommended a new COVID-19 vaccine called Novavax. Why it matters Novavax is the first protein-based…
A fourth Covid vaccine is cleared for use in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Tuesday that a newly authorized vaccine from Novavax be used as…
Monkeypox: What we know about the outbreak, vaccinations and treatments
Health officials around the world are racing to curb an outbreak of monkeypox cases that has swelled into the thousands, deploying both…
A sharp global drop in childhood vaccinations during the pandemic threatens the…
Millions of children around the world, most of them in the poorest countries, missed some or all of their childhood…
Low demand for young kids’ Covid vaccines is alarming doctors
States where parents have hesitated to inoculate their children against Covid-19 are now ordering fewer doses of the vaccines for…
FDA authorizes Novavax’s Covid vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s protein-based Covid vaccine for adults, providing Americans with an alternative to the mRNA-based…