As a group of advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meets this week to discuss Covid-19 vaccines and make recommendations on who should get the updated shot this season, a newly published analysis from dozens of researchers emphasizes the “substantial” benefits of broad vaccine recommendations.

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Confusion over vaccine recommendations in the U.S. has hit a boiling point as the responsibility for handling them has spilled onto individual states. Regulators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have long provided trusted national guidance on who should get certain vaccines and when.

HHS and CDC announced five new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just days ahead of a scheduled meeting that's likely to discuss COVID vaccines and more.

The guidance that emerges from CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting Thursday and Friday could influence whether pharmacists and doctors give vaccines.

The boss of Age Scotland has said she is concerned that the NHS criteria for vaccinating people against flu and Covid is "puzzling". The free flu vaccine will be offered to those 65 and over this winter, in line with last year, but Covid boosters will only be given to people 75 and over - as well as those who are immunosuppressed.

The nation’s four West Coast states on Wednesday recommended that all adults and children concerned about the respiratory season can receive the COVID-19 vaccine and other common inoculations.

While some COVID indicators are rising in California, others are starting to fall — a hint that the summer wave may start to decline soon.

Starting the diabetes drug metformin within 90 days of SARS-CoV-2 infection decreased the risk for developing long COVID by 64%, according to a new study.

Yet she’s lost hours in her struggle to figure out whether and when she can get a COVID booster. Her doctor said she could—and should, she told me. According to her doctor, she wouldn’t need a prescription;

California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington on Wednesday issued unified recommendations on COVID-19, influenza and RSV vaccines that differ from those issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.