The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases and hospitalizations are surging.

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability and death.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

Georgians should now be able to get the updated COVID vaccines at pharmacies without a prescription after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the latest federal guidelines. 

Just last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made changes to their recommendations for well-known vaccines for kids and adults. But not far away, people who study public health were having their own conversations.

Changes to vaccine policy recommendations mean more questions than answers are currently available when it comes to seasonal vaccinations. 

Georgia Board of Public Health Chairperson James Curran criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disruption of a vaccine guidance system that was working well.

Both U.S. senators from Georgia called for the firing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Thursday, after weeks of chaos at CDC headquarters in Atlanta and a shooting that killed a DeKalb County police officer.

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Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Georgia has one of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the South, second to only Florida and far higher than neighboring Alabama.

COVID cases often spike in the summer. Meanwhile reported cases of measles and pertussis have been much higher this year compared to last.  

Rural health care providers are often the first, and sometimes only, line of information for parents with questions about their child's health care, including concerns over vaccines.

In one of the most tense exchanges in a heated confirmation hearing, Senator Angela Alsobrooks called out past comments RFK Jr. made suggesting a different vaccine schedule for Black people.

As confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr. nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, many are focused on domestic agenda. The agency has a vast global scope as well.