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COVID-19 gone? Not by a longshot, local officials warn
Coronavirus transmission has been slowly, but steadily, on the rise in recent weeks — and though local public health officials say the most recently available data doesn’t yet indicate a surge akin to...
View ArticleKaiser says new COVID-19 booster shots coming as early as next week
A new COVID-19 booster vaccine approved in mid-September has yet to make its way to Kaiser Permanente facilities, but that should be changing soon. The Oakland-based healthcare provider said Friday...
View ArticleThe new vaccines and you: Americans better armed than ever against the winter...
Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News Last year’s “triple-demic” marked the beginning of what may be a new normal: a confluence of respiratory infections — RSV, influenza, and COVID-19 — will surge as the...
View ArticleStates reconsider religious exemptions for vaccinations in child care
Matt Volz | KFF Health News (TNS) More than half the children who attend Munchkin Land Daycare near Billings, Montana, have special needs or compromised immune systems. The kids, who range in age from...
View ArticleAnalysis: A new era of vaccines leaves old questions about prices unanswered
Elisabeth Rosenthal | (TNS) KFF Health News The world is entering a new era of vaccines. Following the success of COVID-19 mRNA shots, scientists have a far greater capacity to tailor shots to a...
View ArticleLA County reports first flu-related death of season; get your shots,...
Los Angeles County reported the county’s first flu-related death of the 2023-24 flu season on Wednesday, Nov. 15. According to the county Department of Public Health, the patient was an “elderly”...
View ArticleRFK Jr.’s campaign of conspiracy theories is PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year
Madison Czopek, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders, PolitiFact | (TNS) KFF Health News As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of...
View ArticleHow to stay healthy during cold, flu and COVID-19 season
By CARLA K. JOHNSON | AP Medical Writer Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the...
View ArticleThe U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. Why is it back now?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to be “on alert” for patients with symptoms of measles — a virus declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 — after nearly...
View ArticleHow the anti-vaccine movement pits parental rights against public health
Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot...
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