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Is pivoting to an annual COVID-19 shot a smart move?

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus.

The study analyzed 101 mpox cases from 13 countries reported last year to the American Academy of Dermatology/International League of Dermatologic Societies registry.

When should we think about the next COVID-19 vaccine? Or should we?

Women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy are seven times more likely to die during childbirth or during the pregnancy than uninfected pregnant women.

The Redditor also looked at the reviews of the article which PLOS ONE made available, and concluded that "clearly neither reviewer actually read it in any detail."

COVID-19 accounted for about 270,000 deaths in 2022, according to death totals compiled by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), "a near real-time surveillance system," raised a safety concern about the Pfizer/BioNTech booster.

MMR vaccination coverage for kindergartners is at the lowest level in over a decade, according to a new report.

Review of nearly 8000 Swedish children with incident type 1 diabetes showed no signal of a protective effect from rotavirus vaccination, which started in Sweden during 2014–2019.