Flu is surging across most of the U.S. But, amid an early, harsh season, there is a glimmer of promising news: The flu shot may be more effective than experts predicted...

Johnson joined Cleveland Clinic`s Phase 1 clinical trial studying a vaccine for triple-negative breast cancer...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday finds that Covid vaccines continue to protect healthy children from severe illness - a conclusion top federal health officials have questioned in recent months...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention`s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth...

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director of the Food and Drug Administration`s vaccine division, sent a memo to staff that linked children`s deaths to the COVID-19 vaccine, but did not provide data to back the claim...

A person waves a Canadian flag in front of a truck, as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022...

A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, US, February 23, 2021...

© Getty Images / Chris Jackson The billionaire calls for massive government investments to prepare for potential outbreaks that could be deadlier than Covid-19 Software magnate Bill Gates has raised the specter of future viruses that could be more lethal than Covid-19, saying rich countries should ramp up vaccine funding to brace for potentially catastrophic outbreaks...

The photo shows people protesting in the streets of the Austrian capital Vienna against total national lockdown...

This picture taken on November 05, 2021 shows a child receiving a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California...

Members of parliament attend a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, in Paris, France, on January 4, 2022...

Toddlers born during the pandemic scored lower on some skills development tests than those born earlier...

French President Emmanuel Macron (photo by AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has generated major furor after insisting his government’s COVID vaccination strategy was aimed at annoying the unvaccinated and ardently making life harder for them...

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A teenager receives the Covid-19 vaccine from a nurse Anthony McLaughlin during a vaccination clinic...

The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia, US, October 9, 2020...

FILE PHOTO © AFP / Mohamad Ali Harissi The United Arab Emirates has allowed international travel to the jabbed and boosted only Unvaccinated UAE citizens will be banned from traveling abroad starting January 10, according to local media, citing the country’s crisis management agencies...

Indian officials have told CNN that the country will provide Afghanistan with one million doses of Covaxin produced in India by Bharat Biotech...

© Reuters / Jeenah Moon Major US carrier Delta blames new Covid-19 cleaning rules for turning around plane that was halfway to Shanghai Delta Air Lines halted service to Shanghai so suddenly that it turned back a flight from Seattle that was already halfway to China, reportedly leaving some passengers stranded with expiring Covid-19 tests and visas...

A COVID-19 testing center in New York City The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus is sending daily infections in parts of the United States soaring to levels higher than the pandemic peak of early 2021...

The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is 40% to 45% lower than for patients with the Delta variant, according to research by London’s Imperial College published on Wednesday...

A police officer stands next to boxes of expired AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines as they are destroyed by a bulldozer, in Abuja, Nigeria, December 22, 2021...

Blanket vaccine booster programs are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic rather than ending it, as inequity in access to jabs could lead to more mutated variants that drag out the crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns...

Donald Trump squares off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden in a 2020 presidential debate...

A medical worker administers a dose of a Covid vaccine to a child in Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, near Paris, France...

© Evan Vucci/Pool via REUTERS Billionaire Bill Gates has found little sympathy after saying he has canceled most of his holiday plans over the Covid variant Omicron, while also providing advice on how the pandemic can end in 2022...

Demonstrators protest outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta...

This photo taken on March 3, 2021 shows an inoculation of the COVID-19 Vaccine at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut...

The United States has surpassed 35 million recorded COVID-19 cases...

Handout file photo released by the Venezuelan presidency shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) Summit at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, on June 24, 2021...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holds a letter he received from Doctors for Extinction Rebellion during a protest in front of the WHO headquarters, on the sidelines of the WHO’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 29, 2021...

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock holds a news conference at 10 Downing Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain March 17, 2021...

In this file photo taken on March 4, 2021, vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are seen at the Belisario Porras school San Francisco neighbourhood in Panama City...

A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccine centre set up at City Hall in Hull, northeast England on May 7, 2021...

On 11 December the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported on four cases of partial facial paralysis experienced by the recipients of the Pfizer vaccine...

The file photo shows Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine bottles...

Venezuelans wait in line to get a COVID-19 test at a testing center in Cucuta, on the Colombian border with Venezuela, on December 28, 2020...

Hundreds wait in line at Lakes Park Regional Library to recieve the COVID-19 vaccine in Fort Myers, Florida, December 30, 2020...

Kianoush Jahanpour, spokesman of Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) An Iranian Health Ministry official says the production of coronavirus vaccine in cooperation with Cuba is one of Tehran’s priorities after such other alternatives as purchasing from a foreign country and participation in the World Health Organization’s COVAX program...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that although the upcoming vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel, we simply cannot accept a world in which the poor and marginalized are trampled by the rich and powerful in the stampede for vaccines...

The file photo shows a coronavirus lab at the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran...

File photo of a nurse preparing Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine against the coronavirus disease for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow...

Democratic US presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden pauses during remarks about his plans to develop and distribute a safe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine if elected president, during a campaign statement after being briefed by public health experts in Wilmington, Delaware, US, on September 16, 2020...

Vials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, co-developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical firm CanSino Biologics Inc and a team led by Chinese military infectious disease expert, are pictured in Wuhan, in Hubei Province, China, on March 24, 2020...

Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot...

A woman is seen holding a small bottle labeled Vaccine COVID-19 and a medical syringe in this photo illustration taken on April 10, 2020...

In this file photo a worker packs rabies vaccines at a lab at the Yisheng Biopharma Company, where researchers are trying to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Shenyang in China’s northeast Liaoning province, on June 9, 2020...

Oxford University and AstraZeneca are recruiting around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a day after receiving U...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 12, 2002 (FILES) This file photo taken in January 1943 shows US Office of War Information (OWI) employees receiving free inoculations against smallpox, as well as diptheria and typhoid, in Washington, DC...