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The shot has been available under emergency use since 2022 and is the nation’s only traditional protein-based option for COVID-19. Now experts are questioning whether other vaccines will be caught in the turmoil.

The bill drew debate in the Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee because it would expand what is known as the “Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.

The measure would seem a premptive strike at a growing industry. No food engineered to include vaccines are approved for use in the U.S., but research using mRNA technology goes back several years.

RSV was in full swing throughout November, but vaccine levels for it and other respiratory diseases remain low - especially in high-risk populations.

Nonmainstream doctors and health leaders are wielding serious muscle in shaping the incoming administration’s health policies and challenging prevailing thinking on public health, disease prevention and chronic illness.

Anyone with COVID-19 during the summer has some, but not full, protection against germs spreading in fall and winter. Infectious disease experts recommend what shots to get now.

The Florida Department of Health provides free shots for kids on weekdays.

It starts earlier and runs longer than anywhere else in the U.S., according to UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. Most older adults, who are vulnerable to the disease, haven’t been vaccinated yet.

False claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause deaths and other diseases such as cancer are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines saved lives and do not cause cancers.