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Tag: Vaccination and Immunization

As Covid Deaths Climb, Even Seniors Skip the Latest Booster

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. — Bonnie Ronk is something of a public health matriarch at the Mt. Diablo Center for seniors in this liberal Northern...

Key Partner in Covax Will Stop Giving Free Vaccines to Middle-Income Nations

A key partner in Covax, the organization that has led the effort to bring Covid vaccines to poor and middle-income countries, will stop supplying...

The Covid Pandemic’s Hidden Casualties: Pregnant Women

Of all the groups still threatened by Covid-19 — including the elderly and the immunocompromised — it is pregnant women who seem the most...

House Passes $858 Billion Defense Bill Repealing Vaccine Mandate for Troops

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed an $858 billion defense policy bill that would rescind the Pentagon’s mandate that troops receive the...

Fauci Sees a Reduced Covid Threat This Winter

Federal health officials expressed optimism on Tuesday that the nation was better prepared to weather a surge of Covid-19 infections this winter compared with...

Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure.

As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social distancing, a medley of new coronavirus variants is seeding a rise in...

The End of Covid Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’

Operation Warp Speed, the Trump-era program that poured billions of dollars into developing Covid shots, seemed to signal a new dawn of American vaccine...

Scientists Are Gaining On RSV, a Persistent Threat to Children

“We think we have a vaccine that really can be a very important solution to prevent serious respiratory disease associated with R.S.V. in older...

How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic

ORINDA, Calif. — They waved signs that read “Defeat the mandates” and “No vaccines.” They chanted “Protect our kids” and “Our kids, our choice.”Almost...

Three Pressing Questions About Monkeypox: Spread, Vaccination, Treatment

Monkeypox, once a relatively obscure virus endemic to Africa, has bloomed into a global threat, infecting more than 20,000 people in 75 countries and...

W.H.O. Declares Monkeypox Spread a Global Health Emergency

For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global emergency. This time the...

Demand for Monkeypox Vaccine Exceeds Supply, C.D.C. Says

“We have the capacity for testing that we need and have made it easier to access,” Dr. Walenksy said.But health officials should be doing...

Vaccine protection waned this spring but boosters helped, the C.D.C. reports.

The emergence of highly contagious Omicron subvariants this spring in the United States appeared to reduce the protection offered by vaccines against Covid hospitalizations,...

As Monkeypox Spreads, U.S. Plans a Vaccination Campaign

Clinics nationwide will begin offering vaccinations against monkeypox to anyone who may have been exposed to the virus, federal health officials announced on Tuesday.Until...

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