vaccination

NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports as Pennsylvania looks to expand its coronavirus vaccination program to the next group of people.

Pennsylvania’s health secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, said the vaccination continues to improve that hopes the federal government will change the way it doles out doses under the incoming Biden administration.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy toured the coronavirus vaccination site at Rowan College of South Jersey Monday morning. Murphy says the federal government needs to supply more vaccines.

Anyone who visited certain terminals at the Philadelphia International Airport on Oct. 2 and 3 may have been exposed to measles, state health officials warned Friday.

The end of summer is near, which means students will be heading back to school shortly. NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante highlights some of the most important vaccines children should receive before returning to the classroom.

In an effort to combat the spread of Hepatitis A in Kensington, the Philadelphia Health Department will offer free mobile vaccination clinics on Tuesday. Residents and community activists point to the opioid epidemic as a contributing factor to the spread of the virus.

California public health officials would have oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.

Actress Jessica Biel says she’s not opposed to vaccinations, but she does not support a bill in California that would limit medical exemptions. The 37-year-old has drawn criticism after appearing this week in Sacramento with vaccination skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to voice concerns about the measure. Biel posted on Instagram Thursday morning that she supports children getting vaccinated and...

Health officials say this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses. It’s already the highest in 27 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count Wednesday, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. Most are from outbreaks in New York in Orthodox Jewish communities. The nation last saw this many cases...

Health officials say this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses. It’s already the highest in 27 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count Wednesday, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. Most are from outbreaks in New York in Orthodox Jewish communities. The nation last saw this many cases...

A bill to end Maine’s religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccines is heading to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 19-16 Thursday to enact the bill. Gov. Janet Mills’ administration has backed the bill ending non-medical vaccine opt-outs by 2021 for schoolchildren, as well as nursery school and health care facility employees.

New Jersey is one out of 19 states where the measles virus has shown up. A health emergency has been declared in some New York neighborhoods, meaning that unvaccinated people must get a vaccination to stop the highly-contagious disease from spreading.

New Jersey’s flagship university is urging students to get vaccinations due to a likely outbreak of bacterial meningitis.

The total number of mumps cases at Philadelphia’s Temple University has increased to 28 and now the school is requiring new vaccines for incoming students.

The total number of mumps cases at Philadelphia’s Temple University has increased to 23.

Facebook announced on Thursday new policies to reduce the visibility of vaccine misinformation on its platform, including rejecting advertising and excluding groups and pages from search results that spread “vaccine hoaxes.” The announcement comes after weeks of criticism from public health advocates and lawmakers who have called for action to curtail inaccurate information about vaccines, which have led to a...

Health officials in one New Jersey county say 86 people who attended a private event may have been exposed to measles.

New Jersey lawmakers put forth 24 anti-vaccine bills between 2011 and 2017, a new study found. The Garden State’s total led the nation, which saw an overall increase in anti-vaccination legislation proposed over that period of time.

Russian trolls weren’t just trying to cause division in U.S. politics. A new study shows they were also trying to sow discord in one of the country’s most heated debates around public health: vaccinations. NBC News reports Russia-linked social media bots pushed divisive rhetoric and misinformation on Twitter on both sides of the vaccine debate, according to research led by...

Flu killed more U.S. children in the past year than during any other regular flu season in recent history. U.S. health officials said Friday that they had received reports of 172 pediatric flu deaths since October. That surpasses the 2012-2013 flu season, when there were 171. An average season sees about 110. There were more deaths in 2009-2010, when a...