Vaccinations

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19…

LOS ANGELES — The government is ready to declare COVID-19 over: The nationwide state of emergency is set to end on May 11. Johns Hopkins University shut down its nationwide COVID-19 data tracking this month.But COVID-19…

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022.Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty…

This 1981 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an electron micrograph of Respiratory Syncytial Virus, also known as RSV.CDC via APThe Food and Drug Administration sees a possible risk of…

Paquita Bonillo, 84 years old, receives the fourth dose of Covid-19 and flu vaccine in the garden of the Feixa Llarga nursing home on September 26, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.Zowy Voeten | Getty ImagesThe flu vaccine has been 68% effective at…

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect…

Passengers prepare to enter Shenzhen through the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point on the first day of the resumption of normal travel between Hong Kong and mainland China on Jan. 8, 2023 in Hong Kong.Li Zhihua | China News Service |…

The World Health Organization has said it is “very concerned” about a spike in severe Covid-19 cases in China and called on Beijing to step up its vaccination programme, especially among vulnerable groups.Many cities in China are…

Cara Murez FRIDAY, Dec. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The pandemic's focus on vaccines may have had a big downside: While kids have long been required to get certain shots to attend public school, a…