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Rollout of Covid vaccines is bumpy, but not unexpected, experts say

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The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting one of the updated shots than they may have experienced since the frantic start of the very first vaccination campaign in late 2020 and the first half of 2021.

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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

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kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. The percentage of U.S.

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Can the world still invent an HIV vaccine? Progress in one area creates new problem

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Last month, the first volunteer was injected with an HIV vaccine he spent over 20 years designing. The last shot they tested, in 2021, didn’t do much of anything, and the 66-year-old worries that if this fails, he might not get another chance to redesign it.  It’s prototype No.

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STAT+: Pfizer is scolded by a U.K. trade group for remarks its CEO made about vaccination

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pharmaceutical industry trade group after its chief executive officer made misleading statements in a media interview about the need to vaccinate young children against Covid-19. And his remarks, which ran in December 2021, prompted a complaint from an advocacy group that argued Bourla was inappropriately touting Covid-19 vaccines.

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Opinion: Reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases starts with kids

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Americans have been warned — again — about lax attention to routine vaccinations. This time the warning comes from measles , an age-old, vaccine-preventable disease, with an outbreak in central Ohio among nearly 80 children and counting, almost all of them unvaccinated against measles. Once well-controlled in the U.S.,

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Some hoped a new oral vaccine would solve all the polio campaign’s problems. Reality is settling in

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When a new and hoped-to-be safer oral polio vaccine started to make its way into use in March 2021, there was huge optimism that this long-needed tool would help the polio eradication campaign quell a growing problem that was — and is still — complicating efforts to stamp out polio forever.

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STAT+: After missing vaccine glory in pandemic, GSK looks to dominate other diseases

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BOSTON — GSK has been developing vaccines under one corporate guise or another for 140 years, ever since a rural Pennsylvania doctor started pumping smallpox shots out of a converted chicken house in 1882, but the company may be most known today for the vaccine it didn’t build.

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