Category: Vaccine Headlines
Not Sure Where to Turn for Trusted Vaccine Guidance?
MedPage Today The Vaccine Integrity Project is analyzing the latest data. This fall, millions of Americans will decide whether to get themselves and their families immunized against flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). These are not small choices: immunizations save lives, prevent hospitalizations, and protect the most vulnerable among us, and — very rarely […]
Sep 3, 2025
Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
AP Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ […]
Sep 3, 2025
F.D.A. Official Overruled Scientists on Wide Access to Covid Shots
NYT The agency’s staff scientists pointed out how Covid was still unpredictable and posed a threat to toddlers, but the official decided to restrict shots only to children with risk factors. Memos released in recent days by the Food and Drug Administration show that the agency’s vaccine chief overruled staff scientists who favored widespread access […]
Sep 3, 2025
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.
NYT In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the C.D.C. was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago. In a message on social media that baffled many scientists, President Trump questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines and demanded that the makers prove that they work. “Many people […]
Sep 3, 2025
Big shakeups to the childhood vaccination schedule could be nearing
STAT Kennedy’s CDC advisory panel, set to meet this month, has signaled change is likely, alarming advocates. Public health experts are bracing for what could be fundamental changes to childhood vaccine policies that don’t align with scientific consensus, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undergoes a major leadership shakeup. Last week, health secretary […]
Sep 3, 2025
Kennedy’s Anti-Vaccine Strategy Risks Forcing Shots Off Market, Manufacturers Warn
KFF Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wouldn’t be a radical choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. “I think he’s going to be much less radical than you would think,” Trump […]
Aug 27, 2025
RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no
Nature In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted. US health secretary and vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no […]
Aug 27, 2025
FDA issues narrower approvals for Covid boosters, revokes emergency authorizations
STAT The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid boosters, but removed emergency use authorizations for the vaccines, in a set of moves that could make the shots more difficult to obtain for children under 5, in particular. The moves were announced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human […]
Aug 27, 2025
FDA approves updated COVID vaccines with restrictions on who can receive them
ABC The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for some Americans. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for use in adults aged 65 and older and for those between ages 5 and 64 with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe COVID. In a press release, the […]
Aug 27, 2025
US CDC taps vaccine skeptic to lead COVID committee
Reuters The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen Retsef Levi, a member of its key vaccine panel, to lead its COVID-19 immunization workgroup, a spokesperson for the health department told Reuters on Monday. Levi had critiqued mRNA vaccines in the past, saying they can cause serious harm and death, especially among children, and called […]
Aug 27, 2025