Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...

According to the CDC, 41 percent of kids hospitalized with COVID between the fall of 2022 and spring of 2024 did not have a known underlying condition — and that number was even higher for ...

Children as young as 6-months-old may still receive COVID-19 vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised Thursday — but the shot is no longer recommended for healthy kids.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use of two Covid-19 vaccines, newly released documents show.

In past criticism of the agency, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has often cited a move by Marks to green-light booster shots during the COVID-19 pandemic that led to the ouster of two top ...

Administration officials argue the shots are no longer necessary for healthy pregnant women, kids and younger adults under 65 because so many people have so much immunity at this point.

DR. MAKARY: We don't- well on the COVID vaccine schedule, we don't want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth COVID booster shot.

The Covid-19 vaccine remains on the CDC's revised schedule of childhood vaccinations despite HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement.

Nonetheless, COVID shots have not been popular among young patients. COVID vaccination coverage for kids remains low, at 13% for this past season among those ages 6 months to 17 years, according ...

The CDC estimates that for every million fully vaccinated 12- to 17-year-old boys, the shots would prevent about 5,700 COVID-19 cases, 71 hospitalizations and two deaths while causing no more than ...