California is followed by Texas and Florida, with over 791,000 cases and over 717,000 cases, respectively. More than 190 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are being tracked by the World Health Organization, at least seven of which are in crucial phase three trials....
Infants who already had a first dose of vaccine before their first birthday "should receive two more doses of MMR vaccine, the first of which should be administered when the child is age 12 through 15 months and the second at least 28 days later." Any unvaccinated child aged 12 months or...
Should the virus ever mutate to spread easily among humans, the CDC says vaccines have been developed that should "provide reasonable protection against H5N1 influenza viruses." The current seasonal flu vaccine would not help prevent infection with avian flu. While the current threat...
Overall, the CDC study reviewed adverse events among 12- to-17-year-olds reported to theVaccine Adverse Events Reporting System(VAERS) between Dec. 14, 2020, and July 16, 2021. VAERS is the primary government-funded system forreporting adverse vaccine reactionsin the U.S. The FDA issued an...
The following statement is attributed to Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of the CDC. As of April 12, more than 6.8 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (Jans...
(ACIP) on Wednesday to further review these cases and assess their potential significance. FDA will review that analysis as it also investigates these cases. Until that process is complete, we are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution. This is ...
One line from Thompson’s statement being quoted by vaccine injury deniers is this: “Reasonable scientists can and do differ in their interpretation of information.” The English major in me notices that the “reasonable scientists” sentence is five paragraphs away from the "protocol was not fo...