immunization

WATCH: Kennedy’s vaccine advisers decline to recommend COVID shot for all Americans

By Mike Stobbe, Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

A general view of the Mississippi State Capitol, in one of the first U.S. states to declare themselves fully open after a year of lockdowns and closures during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. March 9, 2021. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS

Mississippi to allow religious exemptions for childhood vaccinations

Mississippi is starting the court-ordered process of letting people cite religious beliefs to seek exemptions from state-mandated vaccinations that children must receive before attending day care or school.

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

The essential COVID-19 vaccine FAQ

The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and the need for face masks, hand-washing and social distancing remain. But the largest vaccination campaign in United States history has also begun protecting its first recipients.

By Laura Santhanam

An unidentified boy receives an early version of a measles vaccination at the Fernbank School in Atlanta, Georgia, 1962. Photo by the CDC

There’s a measles outbreak. Do you need another shot?

If you had measles as a child, do you need another shot? What if you can’t remember if you were vaccinated? Your measles questions answered.

By Nsikan Akpan

Vermont’s rules on vaccines for school met with parents’ support and pushback

Several states have tightened their immunization requirements, requiring children who attend school get vaccinated against preventable illnesses. But some parents who believe vaccines should be a personal choice are pushing back. Special correspondent Lisa Stark of Education Week reports from…

By PBS News Hour

Photo: Preventing polio in Yemen

By News Desk

A Yemeni child receives polio vaccination during an immunization campaign at a health center in the capital of Sanaa.

The flu vaccine is set to get a makeover

By Helen Branswell, STAT

The World Health Organization recommended that flu vaccine manufacturers swap out a component based on one flu virus with an updated version.

Australia: If you don’t vaccinate your kids, we’ll cut your benefits

By Justin Scuiletti

Parents who do not vaccinate their children will lose more than $11,000 a year per child in childcare benefits, the Australian government announced today.

Flu winds down as FDA aims for better vaccine next winter

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The miserable flu season is winding down but not quite over yet, health officials said Wednesday, even the government picked what it hoped would be a better vaccine recipe for next fall and winter.

Vaccine skeptics find unexpected allies in conservative GOP

By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

DENVER — As vaccine skeptics fight laws that would force more parents to inoculate their kids, they are finding unexpected allies in conservative Republicans.