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RFK Jr. taps allies and COVID vaccine critics among picks for CDC advisory panel. Here's who's on the list.
Kennedy's picks circumvented the usual CDC process for selecting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
COVID variant found in New Jersey; what parents, others should know about COVID NB1.8.1
A new COVID variant - NB 1.8.1 - is in New Jersey. Parents can take steps to protect their children from COVID this summer.
CDC official overseeing agency recommendations for Covid-19 vaccines resigns
A medical officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was working on the committee that was weighing ...
RFK Jr. names 8 vaccine panel replacements, including a critic of COVID vaccines
Kennedy’s decision to “retire” the previous 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was widely decried by ...
US CDC keeps COVID vaccine option for healthy children
Nearly 1,900 children up to 18 years of age died of COVID-19 in the U.S. as per CDC's estimates last updated in 2023.
CDC updates COVID-19 guidance for kids
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CDC, FDA Limit Access to COVID Shots for Healthy Adults, Kids, and Pregnant People
The CDC will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and healthy children. Updated COVID-19 shots will ...
RFK Jr. Names Eight Vaccine Panel Replacements, Including Covid-Shot Skeptics
The new composition of the influential advisory committee comes days after the health secretary dismissed the panel’s 17 ...
What to know about the new ‘Nimbus’ COVID variant
The World Health Organization is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or “Nimbus,” that has spread across Europe, the Americas and the Western Pacific.   Nimbus is ...