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Pharmacist Administered Flu Vaccine Increased Uptake Among Older Adults
16 Jun 2025 21:16 GMT
… public health.
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From February 2020 through September 2022, pharmacies administered over 270 million COVID-19 vaccines with another 8.1 million for long-term care residents.2 …
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Merck Launches Phase 3 Trial of Single-Dose Dengue Vaccine Candidate V181
16 Jun 2025 18:33 GMT
… and Vietnam. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial will assess the vaccine's ability to prevent symptomatic, virologically confirmed dengue (VCD) of any severity.
V181 is a live attenuated quadrivalent vaccine designed for single-dose …
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Who Is on RFK, Jr.’s New Vaccine Panel—And What Will They Do?
16 Jun 2025 18:02 GMT
… who served on the ACIP from 1998 to 2003, says insurers don’t have to cover vaccines that aren’t recommended by the ACIP. And “doctors or pharmacists who give vaccines may feel that they would be liable for giving that vaccine”, he adds.
Even those who can …
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Former CDC Director: RFK Jr. is Dangerously Wrong about Vaccines
16 Jun 2025 19:47 GMT
… claims ACIP "has never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons." This is false and misrepresents ACIP's role. By the time vaccines reach ACIP for deliberation, they've already been approved, having been …
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FDA chief Makary predicts a universal flu vaccine in next five years
16 Jun 2025 19:01 GMT
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Many older people embrace vaccines. Research is proving them right.
16 Jun 2025 21:41 GMT
… of vaccines that can prevent much of that serious illness," he said.
Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them older than 65, and is fatal to 10% of those hospitalized older patients.
For about 15 …
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Health-care workers urge Alberta to halt plan limiting free COVID-19 vaccines
16 Jun 2025 21:21 GMT
… from the COVID-19 virus will have to pay for the vaccine out of pocket for it.
“The way that we prevent people from coming into hospital is preventative medicine, which we’re absolutely not doing by de-restricting or causing people to have to pay for these …
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Majority of Albertans will have to pay for COVID vaccine
16 Jun 2025 21:20 GMT
… be available to all other Albertans at full cost.
Vaccines will only be available at public health clinics for phases two to four.
The actual cost per dose and for the vaccine program is yet to be determined, but the cost per dose was estimated at $110 by …
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Vaccine advisory overhaul: Kennedy's controversial panel picks spark Senate scrutiny
16 Jun 2025 19:01 GMT
… about vaccines to the federal government.
How did we get here?
“I’m going to let him go wild on health,” President Donald Trump said last fall of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I’m going to let him go wild on food. I’m going to …
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How Big Pharma left its mark on woke CDC vax advisory panel — and what RFK Jr. did about it
16 Jun 2025 18:30 GMT
… Prior to her appointment to the ACIP, the CDC indicated that Maldonado "served as Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for Pfizer meningococcal vaccine trials and as a site PI for Pfizer pediatric COVID-19 and maternal RSV vaccines and AstraZenaca …