Vaccine News
FDA advisers back Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for older kids
NEW YORK — A government advisory panel Tuesday endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens. The…
COVID-19 Continues to ‘Unravel’ Progress on Routine Vaccinations
New reports suggest that many people are not still caught up on routine vaccine schedules that were disrupted by missed…
Op-Ed: Vaccine disruptions and mistrust are ramping up measles risk
Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were…
U.S. orders 500,000 monkeypox vaccines to be delivered this year
The United States has ordered 500,000 more monkeypox vaccine doses for delivery this year, the manufacturer said Friday. The order…
Marathon US hearings to decide fate of COVID shots for tots
Parents anxious to finally vaccinate their youngest children against COVID-19, strap in: A lot is set to happen over the…
FDA Approves Priorix Vaccine for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
The FDA has approved Priorix (measles, mumps and rubella [MMR] vaccine, live; GSK) active immunization for the prevention of measles, mumps, and…
Why boosted Americans seem to be getting more COVID-19 infections
As COVID-19 cases began to accelerate again this spring, federal data suggests the rate of breakthrough COVID infections in April was worse…
Prevention: A dental checkup is much more than cleaning your teeth
You may not think of your dentist as an investigator but when it comes to your oral health, I take…
Social media spreads rumours about COVID vaccine harms … but it doesn’t…
For decades, anti-vaccine movements have generated and spread rumours that vaccines cause serious health problems. The rollout of COVID vaccines has provided new…
Colorado lays out vaccine distribution plan for children under 5
SOUTHERN COLORADO — Children under the age of five may soon be able to get their first COVID-19 vaccinations. The…
Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during periods with different dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants
A new study posted on the medRxiv* preprint server found that despite a lower coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine efficacy against reinfection with the…
White House says COVID vaccination for kids younger than 5 could start…
The White House laid out the federal government’s plans to make the first COVID-19 vaccines available for very young children….
How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation
Last year, Saphinah Kenyando was struggling to decide whether to get vaccinated against Covid. Kenyando, who is 38 and teaches chemistry…
Study Finds What Persuaded Vaccine-Hesitant People to Get COVID Jab
Scientists have discovered through a new study what eventually persuaded people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after previously saying they…
This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations…
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge…