The announcement follows Kennedy’s decision to no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women and children.

A south Alabama representative has refiled a bill that would require unemancipated minors to receive parental consent for vaccinations.

A bill to eliminate flu and whooping cough vaccine requirements for adoptive and foster families caring for babies and medically fragile kids is heading to the governor’s desk.

The 82 year-old veteran government official and infectious disease expert will officially retire at the end of 2022.

Free COVID-19 tests are being made available again via covidtests.gov.

Kevin McCarthy has pledged that his party will oppose a budget bill funding the Defense Department’s operations next year if a rule supported by the president and military isn’t revoked.

‘A lot of people are going to be happy and a lot of grandparents are going to be happy, too.’

It didn’t have to be this way.

The new COVID strain is ’cause for concern, not a cause for panic,’ President Joe Biden said Monday.

Republicans have increasingly embraced antisemitic comparisons of vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.

Voters who expressed concern about the pandemic overwhelmingly backed Democrat Terry McAuliffe. But most voters had other priorities.

After ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits, some Republican officials now want assistance for workers who were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.

Michele Fiore has also suggested racism is a thing of the past and has said that ‘young, hot little girls on campus’ should carry guns to prevent getting assaulted.

The GOP gubernatorial nominee said Tuesday that some vaccines ‘can be mandatory’ — with the exception of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The majority of Americans support COVID-19 vaccine mandates in many cases, according to a new poll.

Most Americans want them.

U.S. officials now say most Americans should get a third COVID-19 vaccine shot. Experts worry about the rest of the world.

As more employers impose vaccine mandates, a legal showdown over religious exemptions could be brewing, experts say.

Republican state lawmakers are reportedly circulating a bill that would grant unemployment to those who quit over workplace vaccine requirements, weeks after trying to end benefits for others.

Vaccination rates are increasing in states with the highest rates of new coronavirus infections.

Among Americans who align themselves with the GOP, confidence in science has fallen 27 points since 1975, at a time when public health professionals are speaking out against the dangers of vaccine misinformation.

The ahistorical comparison comes as other GOP legislators equate vaccine requirements to the horrors of the Holocaust.

Older people are sharing their memories of the polio era with young people as a lesson of hope for emergence from COVID-19.

Vaccines are slowly becoming available to immigrants in US custody. Whether they trust authorities enough to take them is another question.

‘This bill will lower health care costs, expand coverage, and address inequities in care,’ Anne Shoup of Protect Our Care said.

‘I think they just kind of feel like there is no end in sight,’ said the executive vice president of one local union protecting grocery store workers.

‘The trajectory of the economy is predicated on the effectiveness of the vaccine and its distribution,’ Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist of the National Retail Federation, said this week.

Experts say many vaccination sites have not received sufficient support from state, local, and federal governments.

Black Americans and Latinos suffered the biggest impact.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.