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.

A second senior CDC official has resigned in two weeks, citing fears that scientific integrity is being undermined under vaccine sceptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Dr. Fiona Havers,

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.

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

COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in some parts of California as a new, highly contagious subvariant—featuring "razor blade throat" symptoms overseas—is becoming increasingly dominant.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

Recent vaccination announcements have led to some confusion. Four physicians weigh in on who should get vaccinated and when

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.

Covid-19 and RSV head data scientist dramatically quits saying she doesn’t trust RFK Jr department to use it ‘objectively’ - Fiona Havers had worked for the Centers of Disease Control for 13 years bef