Category: Vaccine Headlines
This is what could happen to a child who doesn’t get vaccinated
NPR Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again. This unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is trapped in a relentless cycle. “I was very sad. I knew these things could be prevented by vaccines,” his mother, Alzhraa Fadul, says through an interpreter. “I […]
Sep 10, 2025
Another US doctors’ group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID-19 vaccines for all adults
Reuters The American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a contrast to the U.S. government’s narrowed approvals for the shots. Its suggested immunizations for COVID are in line with the pediatric physician’s group, The American Academy […]
Sep 10, 2025
How to get a coronavirus vaccine and who’s eligible amid limited access
Washington Post Pharmacies and state health departments are scrambling to adapt to the confusion over a vaccine that is no longer broadly recommended. Getting an updated coronavirus vaccine can be particularly challenging this year. The Food and Drug Administration approved those shots for people who are 65 and older or have underlying conditions that elevate their risk […]
Sep 10, 2025
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