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Joining ACIP involves a rigorous process, they argued, including submitting letters of support from experts and peers, a ...
The 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel say Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ...
Fiona Havers, who oversees CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...
A highly transmissible new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is spreading in the United States, CDC data show.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday eight new members of the CDC's independent vaccine advisory committee, some of ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently removed all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Who could be on the committee next and what changes may be coming?
In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current ...
There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a 58-second video that the government would no ...
It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for ...
As of late April, 13% of children, and 14.4% of pregnant women, had received the latest updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. About 23% of adults overall received the updated vaccine ...
Children as young as 6-months-old may still receive COVID-19 vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised Thursday — but the shot is no longer recommended for healthy kids.
Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that kids ...