CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met Monday to discuss the potential eventual need for booster doses of coronavirus vaccine -- although they did not vote. The White House has said it's planning to offer booster doses at the end of September, although it's up to the US F...
Federal health officials are appealing to pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and they're trying to make the case that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the known or potential risks. As Mireya Villarreal reports, the resistance to get vaccinated has brought heartache ...
U.S. CDC Expands COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility to 16 and Older More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Nursing student Erika Lohr vaccinates a patient as California opens up vaccine eligibility to any residents 16 years and older during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chula ...
Statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association:COVID-19vaccine benefits still outweigh risks, despite possible rare heart complications. Late last week, theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) alerted health care professionals that they are monitoring ...
A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Those figures were up from the 420,657,683 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Saturday. The agency said 221,520,153 people had received at least one dose, while 192,453,500 people were fully vaccinated as of 6 a.m. EDT on Sunday. The CDC tally includes two-do...
"This is how we can save the most lives and deliver the highest value for money," the Africa CDC deputy chief added. The research found that it is not only the overall vaccine coverage reached that determines the benefits of a vaccine program. Rather, starting early and moving quickly are...
The CDC does not have the authority to mandate vaccines; that decision is left up to states and local jurisdictions. For example, the flu vaccine has long been on the schedule of recommended childhood immunizations, but hardly any state actually mandates it for public schools. ...
Surveys fielded by the CDC suggest parents' vaccine hesitancy may be growing. Around a third of parents say their child, 5 years and older, "probably or definitely will not get vaccinated" through the end of May. That's up from around one in five last fall. CDC data suggests children ar...
“This decision comes at a time when COVID-19 cases are once again climbing. Now, most people 6 months or older in the U.S. are eligible to receive this season’s COVID-19 vaccine, even if they have never been vaccinated against COVID-19 before,”Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chairman and ...