It's perfectly acceptable for 5- to-11-year-olds preparing to receive a vaccine against COVID-19 also to receive other protective shots they may have missing during the pandemic lockdown. For some ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children, days after US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid-19 ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The FDA says the benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to giving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to children. The agency posted a new assessment for kids ages five to 11 Friday night.

Dec. 3, 2025 – With many parents still navigating new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children – and with most pediatric infections remaining mild – it can be hard to know what to do. But a ...

Anti-vaccine advocate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally revoked federal recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people to get COVID-19 booster shots. The abrupt ...

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting the ...

The CDC now advises shared clinical decision-making when it comes to COVID-19 shots for kids, a narrowing of its previous broad recommendation. The change follows an announcement by HHS Secretary ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may not renew the Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of five, the company said. The possible ...