All About COVID-19
Conflicting Advice on Covid Shots Likely To Ding Already Low Vaccine Rates, Experts Warn
By Phillip Reese | Published on Nov. 14, 2025 More than three-quarters of American adults didn’t get a covid shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations. The covid vaccine was initially popular. About 75% of Americans had received at least one dose of…
Amid Confusion Over US Vaccine Recommendations, States Try To ‘Restore Trust’
By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week, confusion filled the room. Members admitted they didn’t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on…
Sorting Out Covid Vaccine Confusion: New and Conflicting Federal Policies Raise Questions
By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News If you want a covid-19 shot this fall, will your employer’s health insurance plan pay for it? There’s no clear answer. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, has upended the way covid vaccines are approved and for whom they’re recommended, creating…
RFK Jr. Says Healthy Pregnant Women Don’t Need Covid Boosters. What the Science Says.
By Jackie Fortiér for KFF Health News (June 2, 2025) You’re pregnant, healthy, and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the covid vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still put you in a…
Is Novavax, the Latecomer Covid Vaccine, Worth the Wait?
By Amy Maxmen Erin Kissane, a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, rolled up her sleeve for the Novavax covid-19 vaccine in mid-October soon after it was finally recommended in the United States. Like many people with autoimmune diseases, she wants to protect herself from a potentially devastating covid infection. Kissane’s autoimmune arthritis seems to…
New COVID-19 Vaccines are now Available: 10 Key Facts and Statistics About These Shots
By Betsy Ladyzhets We now have two new COVID-19 vaccines available for this year’s respiratory virus season, one from Pfizer and one from Moderna, which are expected to perform well against current variants. The FDA approved both vaccines this week, and the CDC recommended them for almost all Americans. A third option, from Novavax, may…
Why the CDC Has Recommended New Covid Boosters for All
By Arthur Allen Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest covid-19 booster, a federal expert panel recommended Tuesday after hearing an estimate that universal vaccination could prevent 100,000 more hospitalizations each year than if only the elderly were vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
Pharmacies Turning Away Immunocompromised Patients Seeking 4th Covid Shot
Patients with weakened immune systems — who are at high risk from COVID-19 — say pharmacies are turning them away when they seek additional vaccine doses recommended by federal health officials.
Why Getting Vaccinated at Church Might Be the Future
With one of the most diverse populations in the country, the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Harris County, Texas, was never going to be a one-size-fits-all approach. In the county of 4.7 million, which is the most populous in Texas and home to the city of Houston, 43 percent of the population identifies as Hispanic or…
The Right Fridge for a Vaccine
It was through years of installing battery-powered refrigerators in far-flung parts of the world that Ian Tansley came to realize their massive flaws.
