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U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce ...

I try not to wade into political arguments either in real life or online. However, there are exceptions. One big one is when politicians ...

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a top Covid-19 advisor, is stepping down from her role at the CDC, Reuters reports.

Federal health officials have changed the game for COVID vaccine access. Pregnant moms and others who rely on them to protect a high-risk family member are scared.

Centralized policy often ignores individual needs. The vaccine schedule is no exception. It discourages case-by-case thinking ...

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said: ...

In a new interview, the FDA commissioner had few answers on how Americans should think about Covid vaccines. Instead, he ...

The CDC continues to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children, maintaining its stance despite recent announcements ...

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as ...

The topic of inequitable vaccine distribution has been widely discussed by academics, journalists and policy-makers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic ... it became clear that what is at stake is ...