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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

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kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. The percentage of U.S.

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Rollout of Covid vaccines is bumpy, but not unexpected, experts say

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The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting one of the updated shots than they may have experienced since the frantic start of the very first vaccination campaign in late 2020 and the first half of 2021.

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Opinion: Better safety studies could restore America’s confidence in vaccines

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In February 2021, I received my second Covid-19 shot — the newly developed vaccine that would eventually save millions of lives worldwide — with great anticipation. It was as if an audible dog whistle began blaring right next to me.

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STAT+: Pfizer is scolded by a U.K. trade group for remarks its CEO made about vaccination

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pharmaceutical industry trade group after its chief executive officer made misleading statements in a media interview about the need to vaccinate young children against Covid-19. And his remarks, which ran in December 2021, prompted a complaint from an advocacy group that argued Bourla was inappropriately touting Covid-19 vaccines.

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Opinion: Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids

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Americans have been warned — again — about lax attention to routine vaccinations. This time the warning comes from measles , an age-old, vaccine-preventable disease, with an outbreak in central Ohio among nearly 80 children and counting, almost all of them unvaccinated against measles. Once well-controlled in the U.S.,

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Can the world still invent an HIV vaccine? Progress in one area creates new problem

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Last month, the first volunteer was injected with an HIV vaccine he spent over 20 years designing. The last shot they tested, in 2021, didn’t do much of anything, and the 66-year-old worries that if this fails, he might not get another chance to redesign it.  It’s prototype No.

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On the road to eliminate rabies, Gavi announces plan to improve human vaccination

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Around the world, the viral infection kills about 70,000 people a year — and since as early as 2015, groups including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have had plans to shore up vaccine efforts to reduce the number. On Thursday, Gavi announced a plan to expand global access to human rabies vaccines, reaching over 50 countries.

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