Tag: Vaccines

Vashon Island High School nurse Sarah Day holds information about measles vaccinations as she poses for a photo in Vashon Island, Wash.

Measles count reaches 27-year high

Cassidy Morrison · May 30, 2019 8:07 pm

A sick person is seen in an airplane with her hand over her mouth, as if sneezing or coughing.

Rare air travel ban could return to combat measles

Cassidy Morrison · May 23, 2019 11:37 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced on Tuesday that Alex Azar (pictured above), President Trump's nominee to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be part of a hearing next week.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar blames ‘complacency’ for falling vaccination rates

Cassidy Morrison · May 21, 2019 4:44 pm

Robert Kennedy Jr., right, speaks at a rally held in opposition to a proposed bill that would remove parents' ability to claim a philosophical exemption to opt their school-age children out of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in Olympia, Wash.

Kennedy family denounces RFK Jr. over anti-vaccine stance

Cassidy Morrison · May 8, 2019 6:17 pm

300-passenger cruise ship believed to belong to the Church of Scientology quarantined for measles case

Cassidy Morrison · May 2, 2019 4:46 pm

2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall meeting in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Buttigieg walks back stance on vaccine exemptions

Caitlin Yilek · May 1, 2019 6:15 pm

One-year-old Abel Zhang cries as he receives the last of three inoculations, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), at the International Community Health Services Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Seattle. The boy's tears lasted only a few moments after he received the shots. A recent measles outbreak has sickened dozens of people in the Pacific Northwest, most in Washington state and, of those, most are concentrated in Clark County, just north of Portland, Oregon. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency over the outbreak last month.

Beltway Confidential

Buttigieg, Harris, and Gillibrand shamefully equivocate on vaccination

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 1, 2019 5:49 pm

A woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y.

Measles cases climb to 704, most since 1994

Kimberly Leonard · April 29, 2019 3:02 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Friday, April 26, 2019, in Indianapolis.

Beltway Confidential

Trump ought to bully people into getting their kids vaccinated

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 26, 2019 7:23 pm

In this March 27, 2019, file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y.

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Trump urging people to get measles shots is a welcome shift; now he must aggressively fight anti-vax fake news

Philip Klein · April 26, 2019 5:38 pm

In this March 27, 2019, file photo, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines sit in a cooler at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y.

LA to quarantine college students who can’t prove they received measles vaccination

Julio Rosas · April 25, 2019 10:34 pm

A woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y.

Measles infects nearly 700 people, smashing 25-year record

Kimberly Leonard · April 24, 2019 10:46 pm