vaccines

Published
September 25, 2023

Agencies launch effort to promote vaccinations with supplies of new COVID shot limited

The new effort to promote vaccinations come as supplies of a new COVID-19 vaccine are still limited in Maine and nationwide.
Published
September 12, 2023

CDC panel recommends updated COVID vaccines. Shots could be ready this week

Experts worry that immunity from previous vaccinations and infections is fading in many people, and a new shot would save many lives.
Published
September 12, 2023

U.S. approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall

The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination.
Published
August 28, 2023

More dog owners are questioning vaccines like rabies after COVID

Vaccine skepticism has spread to our pets.
Published
July 31, 2023

RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite.

The stories he tells on the campaign trail about himself, his life’s work and what he stands for are often the opposite of what his record actually shows.

Published
June 25, 2023

Commentary: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health – and our democracy

Will the dazzlement of the Kennedy name be sufficient to blind voters to his history of misrepresentations and outright lies?
Published
April 5, 2023

Uptake of bivalent COVID-19 boosters low in Maine, but still higher than most of the country

Nearly a third of all Mainers ages 5 years and older have received the omicron-targeting bivalent booster shot compared to less than 18% of individuals nationwide. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that individuals who have received the bivalent booster are at significantly lower risk of hospitalization and death compared to unvaccinated individuals.
Published
April 3, 2023

Proposals to roll back school vaccine requirements draw crowd to State House

While the bills to reintroduce religious and philosophic exemptions for school vaccines have little chance of passing, advocates on both sides packed a daylong hearing before the Legislature's Education Committee.
Published
November 22, 2022

CDC study: Omicron-specific boosters show modest benefit compared to earlier vaccines

The Biden administration's campaign to boost Americans ahead of an expected winter wave is lagging, with about 11 percent of people having gotten a bivalent booster.
Published
October 10, 2022

For decades, failure in hunt for vaccine for child respiratory virus. Now, success.

Two RSV vaccines, one developed by pharmaceutical giant GSK and another from Pfizer, have protected older adults in large-scale trials in recent months.

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