Enlarge / A child with measles. reader comments 236 The US may be heading to a “dangerous vaccination tipping point,” with immunization rates falling so low that population-level immunity is now at risk, and we will likely see thousands of needless deaths this respiratory virus season, two top officials for the Food and Drug Administration ..
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Enlarge / A pharmacist administers an updated COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, California. reader comments 84 with With fall approaching, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is gearing up efforts to promote three respiratory virus vaccines this year—annual flu shots, new RSV vaccines, and updated COVID-19 shots—and the agency’s plans ..
Enlarge / Cleveland doctor Sherri Tenpenny gives false testimony on June 8, 2021, saying COVID-19 vaccines magnetize people. reader comments 249 with Sherri Tenpenny, the Ohio anti-vaccine doctor who made national headlines for claiming in viral testimony that COVID-19 vaccines make people magnetic, has lost her medical license. The state medical board indefinitely suspended her ..
Enlarge / A boy smiles as he gets a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination. reader comments 56 with State health departments are facing federal budget cuts to programs that support childhood vaccination, which are coming at a time when immunization rates among children are slipping and under threat from anti-vaccine rhetoric. News of the ..
Enlarge / A child getting a vaccination on February 19, 2021, in Bonn, Germany. reader comments 80 with 0 posters participating Share this story Routine childhood vaccination coverage continues to slip among US kindergarteners, falling from 95 percent—the target coverage—prior to the pandemic to 94 percent in the 2020–2021 school year and to the new ..
A false color image of the measles virus. reader comments 80 with 0 posters participating Share this story A measles outbreak in the Columbus, Ohio, area has nearly tripled in the last two weeks as officials say they’re struggling to identify the geographic spread of the outbreak and expect it to drag on for months. ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 36 with 31 posters participating Share this story The same strain of poliovirus that paralyzed an unvaccinated young man in New York’s Rockland County this summer is still spreading in several areas of the state as of early October, according to a wastewater surveillance study published by the ..
Enlarge / Cleveland doctor Sherri Tenpenny gives false testimony on June 8, 2021, saying COVID-19 vaccines magnetize people. reader comments 230 with 151 posters participating Share this story The State Medical Board of Ohio is threatening to limit, suspend, or even permanently revoke the medical license of Sherri Tenpenny, the infamous anti-vaccine doctor who made ..
Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of poliovirus type 1. reader comments 129 with 80 posters participating Share this story New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a “state disaster emergency” Friday after poliovirus was detected in wastewater from a fourth county, indicating that the dangerous virus continues to spread, potentially in areas with abysmal vaccination rates. ..
Enlarge / Robert F. Kennedy Jr., heads up to a meeting at Trump Tower on January 10, 2017 in New York City. reader comments 203 with 137 posters participating Share this story As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to ramp up efforts to halt the spread of poliovirus in New York, anti-vaccine ..