Vaccination

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had preliminarily documented more than 17,600 whooping cough infections in the U.S. as of Oct. 5, 2024—more than four times the nearly 4,000 infections recorded at this time in 2023.
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Whooping cough cases up 342% since 2023 as U.S. outbreak continues. What to know about symptoms and spread

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October 11, 2024
Getting multiple vaccines at once is not only safe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but also just as effective as getting them individually.
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Yes, you can get the COVID, flu, and RSV vaccines at once. Here are the pros and cons

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October 8, 2024
As of spring 2024, at which time two RSV vaccines had been FDA-approved, less than 25% of eligible U.S. adults 60 and older had gotten one, according to the CDC.
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RSV can be deadly, especially for older adults. What to know about symptoms and the new vaccine

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October 4, 2024
COVID-19 symptoms can be mild, severe, or nonexistent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and can appear as late as two weeks after you’ve been exposed to the virus.
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Could it be COVID? Here are the symptoms to watch out for in 2024

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September 21, 2024
Fall begins Sept. 22 and with the change of seasons, the new XEC COVID subvariant that started circulating in Europe over the summer has made its way to the U.S.
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Will the XEC COVID variant bring a fall wave of infections? What to know about symptoms and spread

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September 18, 2024
Adults 65 and older should get their annual flu shot between mid-September and early October, according to Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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Older adults should get their flu shots now. Here’s why they also need stronger vaccines

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September 8, 2024
September and October are ideal flu vaccination periods for most people, who need only a single dose each season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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New flu shots have arrived. Here’s the best time to get your annual vaccine

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September 3, 2024
Citing skyrocketing COVID spread, the FDA announced in late August that it had approved Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax vaccines early.
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New COVID vaccines are here. What to know about latest shots in wake of nation’s biggest summer surge

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August 29, 2024
New COVID vaccine in its box
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FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

By The Associated Press and Lauran Neergaard
August 22, 2024
A midwife on New York's Long Island who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state's health department announced this week.
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Long Island midwife who gave kids homeopathic ‘pellets’ instead of vaccines fined $300,000 for falsifying immunization records

By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
January 18, 2024
A trio of vaccines should protect against a 2023 ‘tripledemic,’ experts say—if people get them
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A trio of vaccines should protect against a 2023 ‘tripledemic,’ experts say—if people get them

By Libby Richards and The Conversation
October 13, 2023
Chelsea Clinton is working to stand up ‘the largest childhood immunization effort ever’ with the Gates Foundation and the WHO
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Chelsea Clinton is working to stand up ‘the largest childhood immunization effort ever’ with the Gates Foundation and the WHO

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April 26, 2023
Pfizer-BioNTech ‘surprised’ by Moderna lawsuit alleging they copied COVID-19 vaccine technology
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Pfizer-BioNTech ‘surprised’ by Moderna lawsuit alleging they copied COVID-19 vaccine technology

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August 26, 2022
A patient lies in an intensive care unit at a hospital of the Salzburg state clinics in Salzburg, Austria, on Nov. 17, 2021.
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Austria becomes first Western nation to order compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations and global markets tumble

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November 19, 2021
‘Vax’ is Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year
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‘Vax’ is Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year

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November 1, 2021

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