It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school year by buying supplies, filling out forms and meeting teachers. This year, many parents also face a ...

Walensky is a professor at Harvard Medical School and served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Once clinical trials showed that Covid-19 vaccines were safe and ...

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Covid-19 hospitalization rates have decreased over time, but about 38,000 children were hospitalized with Covid-19 during the 2023-24 season, according to the CDC report – more than 1 hospitalization ...

Dec. 3, 2025 – With many parents still navigating new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children – and with most pediatric infections remaining mild – it can be hard to know what to do. But a ...

One of the covid-19 variants can infect children more easily, posing a new risk to kids, a nationally respected epidemiologist warned on Sunday. The variant called B.1.1.7, first detected in the U.K., ...

COVID-19 infections have risen "exponentially" among children in the US since July, according to data published Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The group reported 243,373 new cases ...

WASHINGTON -- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced the removal of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization ...

Abrupt policy changes and confusing public messaging have injected confusion in back-to-school vaccine protocols. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...