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Texas lawmakers, amid measles outbreak, pass bill making it easier to request vaccine exemptions

Wed, 2025-05-28 18:12 — mike kraft

New Texas bill makes it easier to request vaccine exemptions Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, despite the current measles outbreak in West Texas. ABC News ABC News

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U.S. CDC advisory committee recommends lowering age for receiving RSV vaccinatons

Thu, 2025-04-17 10:12 — mike kraft

Vaccine advisory panel recommends expanded RSV use, and two new vaccines The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Wednesday to recommend lowering the age at which adults can get a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus. Helen Branswell STAT

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Vaccine skepticism: a new trend in attritudes--study

Fri, 2025-03-21 11:22 — mike kraft

'It's not a vaccine, it's a shot': Uncovering a new trend in vaccine skepticism It has long been recognized that attitudes towards vaccines may be vaccine-specific, so that people may take up some, but not others. Elena Semino Medical Xpress

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Analysis: Public health efforts nationwide hurt by CDC firings

Tue, 2025-03-04 11:02 — mike kraft

CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington | CNN The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. CNN

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Increased efforts seen in some U.S. state legislatures against vaccines and for ivermectin

Mon, 2025-02-24 09:47 — mike kraft

Moving the needle state by state. Legislative activity in the medical freedom movement picks up. Mary Talley Bowden MD

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Analysis: While the Trump administration fires federal health workers, the U.S. copes with outbreaks of measles and other diseases.

Thu, 2025-02-20 14:38 — mike kraft

Measles Cases Spread in Texas and New Mexico as Trump Purges Federal Health Workers The U.S. is grappling with multiple outbreaks of disease as the Trump administration purges federal health workers. Steven Ross Johnson U.S. News & World Report

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Claiming government overreach, Louisiana won't promote vaccinations

Mon, 2025-02-17 11:16 — mike kraft

Citing government overreach, Louisiana won't promote vaccination, surgeons general say The CDC says it's now classifying the flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. CIDRAP

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Status of flu, RSV, COVID and norovirus infecions in the U.S.

Wed, 2025-02-05 09:59 — mike kraft

Is a 'quademic' swirling? What you should know about flu, RSV, COVID and norovirus All are not peaking at precisely the same time, but spikes in the 4 viruses are "clustering," experts say. Yahoo News

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A nationwide surge in flu, COVID-19, RSV and norovirus infections is fueling concerns of a possible virus "quademic." Or is it just winter?

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Democratic Senators demand that RFK JR recuse himself from vaccine matters if confirmed

Mon, 2025-02-03 17:23 — mike kraft

Democratic Senators demand health pick Kennedy's recusal from vaccine matters if confirmed Two U.S. senators who will vote this week on whether to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as the top U.S.

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U.S.Veterans Affairs Administration study indicated COVID cases more severe than RSV, flu

Thu, 2025-01-30 10:46 — mike kraft

VA study shows COVID more severe than RSV, flu Primary outcomes included rates of 30-day hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, and death, as well as the secondary outcome of long-term death extending through 180 days. CIDRAP

A large study of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that, during the 2022 to 2023 season, having COVID-19 was associated with more severe disease outcomes than flu or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Differences became less pronounced, however, during the 2023 to 2024 season.

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