immunization

New Study Shows Millions Saved by COVID Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination saved an estimated 2.5 million lives, according to a new modeling study published in JAMA ...

AUGUST 4, 2025

FDA Approves Spikevax COVID Shot in Children at Increased Risk

The FDA approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, in children between the ages of 6 months and 11 years ...

JULY 15, 2025

HHS Secretary: COVID Shots No Longer Recommended for Children or During Pregnancy

COVID-19 vaccinations are now removed from CDC recommended immunization schedules for healthy children and pregnant ...

MAY 27, 2025

ACIP Provides Update on Ongoing Measles Outbreaks in the U.S.

Measles cases this year are more than double that in 2024, according to a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on ...

APRIL 21, 2025

Fewer Than 1 in 5 Adults Concerned About Respiratory Infections This Season

Fewer than 1 in 5 U.S. adults expressed concern about themselves or a family member contracting influenza, RSV, ...

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Catch-Up Vaccinations Needed as Some Coverage Declines

Vaccine coverage in the United States by age decreased for adolescents born in 2008 compared with those born ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Remains Significant Global Threat

The global spread of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) continues, including ongoing transmission of ...

APRIL 26, 2023

Immunization: Vaccine Updates Beyond COVID-19

Although it may seem that we have awakened to, lived through, and dreamed about COVID-19 over the past 3 years, our ...

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Many HPV Cancers Among Native U.S. Populations Vaccine Preventable

The CDC team hopes that understanding the data, as well as regional breakdowns, will help develop targeted and ...

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Preterm Infants Often Undervaccinated

More than half of preterm infants are undervaccinated at 19 months of age, according to a study conducted in ...

AUGUST 27, 2019

Rotavirus Vaccine Cuts Infant Diarrhea Deaths in Malawi

The findings add considerable weight to the World Health Organization’s recommendation that rotavirus vaccine ...

AUGUST 13, 2018

AAP Issues Revised Guidelines for Infection Control in Ambulatory Settings

There are several important and significant changes in the infection prevention and control practices since the ...

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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