Vaccination News

The CDC said Friday that people with COVID-19 no longer have to isolate for 5 days if they are showing certain signs of improvement — the first time in more than 2 years that the guidance has been updated.

The results of the second annual national primary care scorecard suggest the field is facing major problems — poor funding and a diminishing workforce, among them — but increased attention on the issues may offer hope, according to experts.

The CDC on Wednesday recommended a spring COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for adults aged 65 years or older.

In a new clinical report, the AAP provides strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers address parental vaccine concerns and increase immunization rates.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, or CEPI, is spending $14.9 million to develop rapid tests for Nipah virus and Lassa fever.

Mortality in the United States has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels for the most part, but several groups continue to experience disparities that existed before March 2020, according to a study.

Bucking CDC guidance, Florida’s top health official said parents and guardians can decide for themselves whether to send unvaccinated students to an elementary school with an ongoing measles outbreak.

More than one-third of children aged 9 to 17 years in the United States had received one or more HPV vaccines doses as of 2022, according to a new CDC report.

An estimated 5.8 million children in the United States have had long COVID, which may occur in up to 20% of children infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to the authors of a new state-of-the-art narrative review published in Pediatrics.

Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States said this week that they have plans to remove a potentially extinct influenza B lineage from their vaccines and offer only trivalent shots next season.