For children, yes, the CDC’s “shared decision-making” guidance preserves the status quo in which Medicaid and U.S. health-insurance companies are legally required to pay for the COVID vaccines. That also means the vaccines will remain available to low-income kids through the federal Vaccines for Children program.

But in 2024, there was a prolonged summer surge in California that lasted from June through the end of September. After that spike, the expected winter surge never came this year, and for the first time in five years, flu deaths surpassed COVID deaths.

Gov. Mike Braun's administration ordered the abrupt closure of the emergency rental assistance program. Now a judge is ordering it be reopened.

As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced more key changes to the CDC recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination. Two health experts answer questions about what the changes mean.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) confirmed 203 new cases and four deaths in the past 24 hours, while officials stated that most infections remain mild.

According to the Washington State Department of Health, a case was detected in a passenger at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.