COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

COVID-19 took the lives of more than one million Americans and nearly 116,000 Californians, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Another recent federal study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in February, showed approximately 1.01 million ...

Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike ...

In nearly three weeks as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. certainly hasn't allayed concerns that he ...

About 44 percent of American adults ages 18 and older have received a flu vaccine this season, according to the CDC. For the flu season last year, about 45 percent of adults got the shot.

(Reuters) - U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing ...

"Currently, about 37% of Boston residents have received this year's flu vaccine, Ojikutu said. That's lower than the national vaccination rate of approximately 46%.She highlighted the concern for ...

The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, is held every March “to pick flu strains, because it’s a six-month production cycle for a vaccine ...

Wearing a mask can also help reduce the spread of the virus. “It is still not too late to get a flu vaccine,” Virostko said in the announcement. “I have been taking my flu vaccine diligently for ...

Zoetis initially got a contract to create a bird flu vaccine for chickens from the USDA’s National Veterinary Stockpile in 2016. As with a human flu vaccine, the company has had to keep updating ...

If we can use this knowledge to develop vaccines using the parts of the virus that T cells recognize, we might be able to protect ourselves from future flu mutations." Currently, human influenza ...