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Elena Cyrus, a University of Central Florida epidemiologist, says Florida’s sprawling demographic of children and seniors puts it at risk of seeing dangerous increases of COVID, RSV and flu.
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Most of Florida’s county school districts did not meet a health department goal of 95% of kindergarten students receiving all doses of all vaccines required for school entry, according to the data. Required shots for seventh-graders are also down.
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While sales of its COVID vaccines are falling, Pfizer plans to triple the price of the shots and use its bonanza from government contracts to buy and develop new blockbusters.
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A South Florida ARNP wants people to know that temporary skin redness at the injection site of the Jynneos shot is normal. Meantime, HHS says it can soon expand the number of distribution locations for monkeypox vaccines.
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The pandemic caused some kids to fall behind on routine immunizations, and Florida has some of the lowest child COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.
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A report from WHO and UNICEF states that last year, 25 million children missed out on one or more "lifesaving vaccines" — for diseases like tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, polio and yellow fever.
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The panel unanimously recommended certain flu vaccines for seniors, whose weakened immune systems don’t respond as well to traditional shots.
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About 35,000 U.S. children entered kindergarten for the 2020-21 school year without evidence they were vaccinated for extremely contagious diseases, the CDC reports.
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Legislators in Kansas are pushing bills to expand exemptions for school vaccines, allowing religious exemptions for all vaccine requirements without families having to provide any proof of their beliefs. Similar bills are being introduced around the nation.
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On Gulf Coast Life, we talk about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System with Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, captain of the U.S. Public Health Service and deputy director of the CDC Immunization Safety Office.