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HHS and CDC announced five new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just days ahead of a scheduled meeting that's likely to discuss COVID vaccines and more.
A pediatric medical group contradicts CDC guidance by including COVID-19 vaccines in its annual immunization schedule for children at the highest risk of severe illness.
The states of California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii are launching the West Coast Health Alliance to provide immunization recommendations to their residents amid concerns of federal politicization of science.
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WA, OR, CA to launch ‘West Coast Health Alliance' amid CDC's ‘destruction'
Washington state is teaming up with its two West Coast counterparts to counteract what they view as the corrosion of the federal CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gov. Bob Ferguson's office on Wednesday morning announced the launch of a new "West Coast Health Alliance,
Yester day, state health officials issued vaccination guidelines that are different than the CDC’s. And Governor Newsom signed a bill that would require insurance plans to cover vaccines that the state endorses. California now recommends this season’s updated COVID-19 and flu vaccine to anyone six months and older who wants them.
As confusion grows around COVID-19 access amid controversial moves by the CDC and FDA, states are taking matters into their own hands.
Pledging communication about vaccines that will be “grounded in science, not ideology,” the governors of California, Washington and Oregon announced today they will form a West Coast Health Alliance to begin coordinating public health guidelines separate from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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CDC releases details on Chagas, an emerging disease that’s spread by blood-sucking ‘kissing bugs’
Chagas disease is endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and its carrier has been identified in the U.S. Midwest and South.
The U.S. public health system is headed to a "very dangerous place" with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team of anti-vaccine advisers in charge, fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Susan Monarez warned senators on Wednesday.