vaccinations

The portion of U.S. children getting routine vaccinations required for kindergarten dipped slightly during the pandemic.

Los Angeles County health officials and other providers began offering second booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine to eligible residents Wednesday. Long Beach also set up several sites where the booster is available.

Seven LA County vaccine sites will be among the locations offering additional booster shots after federal regulators approved the doses for people 50 and over.

The CDC estimates that 95% of Americans have Covid antibodies, as cases of omicron’s BA.2 subvariant continue to climb. Here’s what experts want you to know.

The FDA and CDC announced Tuesday that both agencies had expanded eligibility for a second booster shot of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for all adults over the age of 50.

An independent group of doctors outline their recommendations for dealing with Covid-19, which they say is “here to stay.” 

As pandemic restrictions ease across the United States, some medical experts are considering when the next Covid vaccine booster shot should arrive. Here’s what they say.

The U.K. will roll out an additional Covid vaccine shot for the elderly and its clinically vulnerable population.

Some with so-called “super immunity” believe now is the safest time to travel during the pandemic. Some medical experts agree; others say it may be too soon.

CNBC Make It spoke to a group of pediatric infectious disease experts about what parents should know about vaccines for children under age 5. Here’s what they said.

Countries with some of the strictest border policies in the world are announcing reopening plans days after global Covid infections reached an all-time high.

Many pandemic protocols are ineffective public health measures and the risk perception among the vaccinated is “way off,” said Harvard’s Dr. Stefanos Kales.

Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

Why you might need to get an omicron-specific Covid vaccine booster shot, even though you never got one for delta, according to Moderna’s chief medical officer.

The billionaire investor and philanthropist argued that the omicron Covid-19 variant “threatens to be Xi’s undoing.”

U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old.

Doctors have warned that vaccine hesitancy around Covid could be “creeping into” sentiment toward other vaccines.

The WHO’s top official said it’s dangerous to assume we’re in the endgame of the pandemic — but with the right action, the Covid emergency could end in 2022.

Covid hospitalizations of children under 5 are rising, the CDC says, and that age group can’t get vaccines. Doctors explain how parents can protect them.

Doctors at children’s hospitals around the country are seeing more kids hospitalized with Covid than ever before.