Asking questions is smart – it's how we make informed choices.
When it comes to vaccines, asking questions helps you make the best decisions for yourself and your family.
What are the risks of infectious diseases?
How are vaccines tested before approval and monitored for safety?
How are vaccines made and what goes into them?
How do we know that vaccines do not cause autism?
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Sep 18, 2026 President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is planning to recommend that certain childhood immunizations be broken up into five separate shots, each with a “small amount of the vaccine.” These “20% doses” would each be given six months apart, he said.
Sep 16, 2026 Nearly three weeks after the Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid vaccines, about half of American children still cannot receive them, because the federal government has not made the doses available through the Vaccines for Children program.
Sep 16, 2026 Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick, delivered a strong endorsement of childhood vaccines during her testimony before the Senate health committee on Wednesday. “I do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism,” Saphier told Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) during her confirmation hearing.
Sep 15, 2026 Pennsylvania health officials confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths in the state on Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths in 2026 to four. Both of the individuals were unvaccinated, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
Sep 8, 2026 The administration of President Donald Trump filled four senior positions at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, promoting several officials who had been serving in acting roles to permanently fill the spots, including the agency’s top leaders for drugs and vaccines.
Sep 4, 2026 A girl born in Pennsylvania with a rare neurological disorder called Amish lethal microcephaly died of measles at around 6 weeks of age, the Lancaster County coroner said Friday.
Sep 4, 2026 The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking to redirect research projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the country’s premier infectious-diseases research centre — the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — to military biodefence programmes at the US Department of Defense (DoD), according to two NIH employees.
Sep 3, 2026 An Army doctor told a federal court in Virginia she’s working with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to probe whether troops died from Covid-19 vaccines after President Joe Biden mandated the shots for service members in 2021.
Sep 2, 2026 As Americans prepare for another respiratory virus season, access to clear, evidence-based information remains essential for making informed vaccination decisions. While the impact of respiratory viruses has evolved since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza, COVID-19, and RSV continue to account for hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths each year, particularly among older adults, infants, pregnant people, and those with weakened immune systems.
Sep 2, 2026 This resource includes the current flu, COVID-19, and RSV immunization recommendations from the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America into a single printable reference for you and your patients.
Vaccinating during pregnancy is a personal choice millions of families make to protect moms and babies.
Routine recommendations help keep maternal vaccines accessible and covered—protecting that choice, not prescribing it.
Learn more about why maternal vaccine recommendations matter.
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