RFK Jr. taps allies, COVID vaccine critics
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After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and some reports that patients were turned away when they tried to get vaccinated.
Nimbus has been detected in at least 14 states including New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current administration has thrown that into uncertainty
The FDA's approval was based on a study of 11,400 people age 12 and older that compared the new low-dose vaccine with Moderna's existing vaccine. It found the new vaccine was safe and was at least as effective - and more by some measures - than the original shot, the company said.
Now that Covid vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant people, boosters could be a lot more expensive this fall. Here’s why.
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Robert F. Kennedy’s purge of a federal advisory committee tasked with developing recommendations on how to use vaccines includes members from two Connecticut universities.
Wisconsin health officials say RFK Jr.'s recent pullback of COVID-19 vaccine advice for kids and pregnant women isn’t based on new evidence.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Moderna's new COVID-19 vaccine, days after the federal government tightened vaccine standards for the virus.
Headlines blared in May when U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for some people—namely healthy pregnant women and healthy children over 6 months old.