Tag: Vaccination

CDC director Rochelle Walensky has tested positive for Covid-19, according to a statement issued by the agency on Saturday. Walensky is “up to date with her vaccines,” the statement said, ...

Top Biden health officials are increasingly concerned about the rise of new Covid variants in the U.S. that appear to evade existing treatments used to protect immunocompromised people from severe ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s surgeon general faced major blowback from the medical community after warning men against taking the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines and highlighting an analysis claiming the ...

Covid-19 may have been the biggest global health crisis in a century, but in so many ways it could have been worse, much worse. Despite the scale and suffering — ...

NEW YORK — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an NYPD detective’s challenge to New York City’s vaccine requirement for municipal workers after all. Last month, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is planning to end a vaccine mandate for private-sector workers, and the administration is also planning to dispense with a similar requirement for students ...

The U.S. reported its first death caused by monkeypox, according to an announcement from the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. The resident “was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized,” ...

The Biden administration’s fall campaign for updated Covid-19 boosters is ramping up ahead of the flu season, with pharmacies adding appointments for the newly authorized shots that officials believe will ...

Senate Republicans are signaling early resistance to attaching billions of dollars for Covid and monkeypox aid in a must-pass government funding bill, a troublesome sign for a White House that ...

The Biden administration’s chief medical adviser gave his most direct prediction to date Monday on the future of Covid-19 vaccines: Expect an annual shot to become the norm. “It is ...