In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current administration has thrown that into uncertainty

After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and some reports that patients were turned away when they tried to get vaccinated.

About 48% of fully vaccinated COVID patients suffered kidney damage during their infection, compared with 42% unvaccinated patients. But nearly 16% of unvaccinated patients had kidney damage so severe they required dialysis, compared with 11% of vaccinated patients.

Vaccination lowers the risk of long-term kidney damage in hospitalized Covid patients * Immunized patients are less likely to require continuous renal replacement //therapy * Unvaccinated individuals face higher mortality during and after hospitalization Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who had received a coronavirus vaccine before contracting the virus and later developed acute kidney injury showed improved health outcomes compared to those who were not vaccinated ( ref1 ).

Meissner was previously listed in April as a consultant to the RSV vaccines work group for the CDC committee, before Kennedy fired its advisers.

Offit, who sits on the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), made the comments after criticizing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for instructing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and children.

Now that Covid vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant people, boosters could be a lot more expensive this fall. Here’s why.

Wisconsin health officials say RFK Jr.'s recent pullback of COVID-19 vaccine advice for kids and pregnant women isn’t based on new evidence.

The CICP started taking claims in 2021 to help those harmed by the COVID vaccine. Four years later it's known more for disappointment and bureaucracy.

Premier Danielle Smith announced that Albertans would need to start paying for COVID-19 vaccines — and this includes frontline medical staff. Two health-care workers' unions are calling for the premier to put a pause on the new plan.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, South African and Colombian civil society organisations initiated strategic litigation against their governments to gain transparency on confidential vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies.