In Chicago, one-time COVID grants made up 51% of the health department budget, and their ending will push staff numbers below the pre-pandemic level of 588, slowing responses to outbreaks and forcing ...

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting from Washington Their numbers are dwindling ... It has been nearly 70 years since Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90 percent effective ...

If polio vaccination rates were to fall ... She didn’t participate in the 1963 March on Washington or play sports, as she desperately wanted to, or go hiking, skiing and bicycling with her ...

The CDC recommends that all children get four doses of the polio vaccine, and all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., require children entering public school or daycare to receive polio ...

Regarding the Dec. 14 article “RFK Jr. ally petitioned FDA on polio vaccine’s approval”: Polio used to be a fearsome adversary. In 1952, the peak year for infections in the United States ...

Francis Ford Coppola attends the 47th Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on Dec. 8, 2024 in Washington ... "To see (polio) go away, there's so many stories about the vaccine, how many ...

But the oral polio vaccine in use at that time contained ... The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff.

a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, at the Capitol in Washington ... polio virus killed or paralyzed up to half a million people a year before a vaccine ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters ... told him he supports polio vaccination. "He said, 'I 100% support polio vaccination,'" Mullin told reporters after meeting with Kennedy, who has for years ...