Who can get updated COVID-19 vaccines in the US now? FDA has approved COVID shots for people aged 65+ and at high risk; others need a doctor’s order. Al Jazeera · Aug 30, 2025
With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work The CDC is in turmoil, with outside groups stepping in to handle work once done by the agency The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2025
RFK Jr faces calls to quit as CDC chief fired and senior staff resign: ‘an embarrassment’ Susan Monarez’s ousting and four top resignations follow vaccine confusion, leaving US health agencies in turmoil The Guardian - US · Aug 28, 2025
Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is getting more and more difficult. Here’s why It depends on your age, insurance coverage, health and finding a health care professional who will give you the shot The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025
How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world Vaccines are one of the greatest public health success stories of all time. Over the past 50 years, they’ve saved an estimated 154 million lives. But in the US, both access to vaccines and public trust in them are being systematically undermined – not by conspiracy theorists online, but from… The Conversation · Aug 11, 2025
AMA and other medical associations are kicked out of CDC vaccine workgroups U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation’s top medical organizations that they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2025
Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025
US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis’ As official health guidance changes, scientific groups are stepping in with evidence-based recommendations The Guardian - US · Jul 30, 2025
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall The Guardian - US · Jul 12, 2025
Nurse on new CDC vaccine panel said to have been ‘anti-vax longer than RFK’ Vicky Pebsworth has spent decades saying vaccines caused her son’s autism – a connection refuted by years of research The Guardian - US · Jul 5, 2025
What is Thimerosal, vaccine preservative called ‘toxic’ by US health chief? The mercury-based preservative was removed from most vaccines in 2001. Should it still be a concern today? Al Jazeera · Jun 28, 2025
US supreme court ruling sets stage for more politicized science under RFK Jr Experts call decision that found health secretary has power to convene key panel ‘classic good news, bad news’ The Guardian - US · Jun 27, 2025
Should Australia worry about RFK Jr’s shock flu vaccine move? A US panel’s decision not to recommend the preservative thiomersal won’t affect vaccine availability in Australia, say experts. But it will stoke dangerous anti-vax sentiment The Guardian - AU · Jun 27, 2025
RFK Jr.'s Handpicked Vaccine Panel Unsurprisingly Delivers Antivaccine Conclusions The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' vote ratifies unscientific claims linking a vaccine preservative to autism. Reason · Jun 26, 2025
The Guardian - US · Jun 26, 2025 RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel votes against preservative in flu shots in shock move Decision to restrict thimerosal in immunizations could impact future vaccine availability on a global scale
The Guardian - US · Jun 26, 2025 US pediatricians criticize RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel: ‘Truly an embarrassment’ Pediatric health experts slam ACIP’s plans to reassess current vaccination schedules for children
The Guardian - US · Jun 26, 2025 RFK Jr’s vaccine panel recommends new RSV treatment for infants Move comes after health secretary replaced advisory board with ideological allies and several vaccine skeptics
The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2025 Kennedy's vaccine committee to vote on flu vaccines and controversial preservative U.S. Health Secretary Robert F
The Guardian - US · Jun 25, 2025 Member of RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel withdraws over conflict of interest Dr Michael Ross was involved in multiple private healthcare firms and withdrew after a review of financial holdings
The Guardian - US · Jun 25, 2025 First meeting of new CDC vaccine panel reveals policy chaos sown by RFK Jr Health secretary unilaterally appointed ACIP’s eight new members, several of whom are critical of immunizations
Roll Call · Jun 25, 2025 CDC’s overhauled vaccine panel presses on despite concerns - Roll Call Public health community has raised concerns about how the newly-picked vaccine panel may influence decisions going forward.
Roll Call · Jun 25, 2025 CDC nominee deflects questions over Kennedy's vaccine decisions - Roll Call Susan Monarez declined to distance herself from the handling of the U.S. measles outbreak by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2025 Kennedy's new vaccine advisers meet for first time U.S. Health Secretary Robert F
Latin Times · Jun 24, 2025 RFK Jr Forced to Take Back His Words After Accusing Lawmaker of Accepting Millions From the Pharmaceutical Industry Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was forced to walk back his words after he accused a Democratic lawmaker of accepting millions from the pharmaceutical industry.
The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2025 GOP senator who voted for RFK Jr despite misgivings is now calling for stop to Trump HHS boss’ vaccine panel Health secretary removed all members of vaccine advisory panel and added several vaccine skeptics