September 21, 2021 - "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license," FSMB wrote. "Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk."

3 weeks ago - Steven J. Hatfill, a biosecurity expert whose views helped form the basis for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to cancel funding for mRNA vaccine research, was fired over the weekend from his job as a senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services, he and a senior department official said. The official said Dr. Hatfill was let go because he had misrepresented himself as the “chief medical officer” for the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, and was “not coordinating policy-making with leadership.”

2 weeks ago - Because hospitals and medical offices are not as safe as they were earlier in the pandemic, and fewer people are taking precautions, making sure that all workers in health care settings are vaccinated has become more critical. And health care workers aren’t the only public-facing workers that need to be protected. The other higher risk groups that need the protection conferred by vaccination are the professions that see dozens, often hundreds of people every day— teachers, market clerks, daycare staff, bus drivers, etc.

August 9, 2025 - This leaves 48% of frontline health care workers who have not yet received a COVID-19 vaccine despite the fact that health care workers who have direct contact with patients were the among the first groups prioritized for vaccine access across ...

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nearly half of establishments that required COVID-19 vaccinations offered incentives at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/nearly-half-of-establishments-that-required...

October 9, 2025 - “Almost every pharmacy at this point that had ordered or preordered their Covid-19 vaccine has some portion of that in stock,” says Brigid Groves, vice president of professional affairs at the American Pharmacists Association. “Patients or caregivers should be able to follow the process that they had done in years past to get one.” · The CDC’s official guidance this week also requires health insurers to cover the cost of the vaccine. “Individual-based decision-making allows for immunization coverage through all payment mechanisms including entitlement programs such as the Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children Program, as well as insurance plans regulated by the Affordable Care Act,” according to the CDC.

Operation Warp Speed (OWS)—a partnership between the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Defense (DOD)—aimed to help accelerate the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. GAO found that OWS and vaccine companies adopted several strategies to accelerate vaccine development and mitigate risk.

I am a family physician and associate director of the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency, and I blog at Common Sense Family Doctor. The receding of the pandemic and the understandable desire to return to normalcy has made COVID-19 vaccines a lower priority for many of our patients.

March 28, 2025 - Nearly 82% of the 1207 HCP surveyed had received a COVID-19 booster, most commonly pediatricians (94%), followed by family medicine doctors (87%), pharmacists (74%), and nurses (73%) (p < 0.01).

These numbers follow an MGMA Stat poll in late August that found almost half (46%) of medical practices would require COVID-19 vaccination status for their employees after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received full FDA approval on Aug.

August 15, 2025 - “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally.

September 16, 2025 - The role of healthcare providers (HCPs) in the pandemic response has become increasingly important. Due to low vaccination acceptance rates among HCPs, individuals who deal with vaccine-hesitant HCPs both professionally and personally are likely to be less vaccine-compliant.

2 weeks ago - Across the country, doctors lining up in droves to roll up their sleeves, with many physicians running the same gauntlet as their patients in an effort to be vaccinated.These same doctors are concerned that media reports emphasizing low vaccine rates may have a negative impact on patients and want to make it clear: doctors are overwhelmingly accepting of COVID-19 vaccines for themselves and their family members.

July 10, 2024 - The AMA’s policy-making House of Delegates, which meets this weekend, said the survey was conducted last week. The AMA said the vaccination rate its analysis showed was a far greater improvement, or an increase of more than 20% for physicians ...

April 6, 2025 - The full cost of vaccinating one child through age 18 comes to approximately $2,500 and requires 35 office visits. This isn’t revenue – it’s the cost to the practice. These expenses include: ... A comprehensive study published in Pediatrics revealed some startling findings about medical practices and vaccination economics:

In mid-December 2020, the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine received emergency use authorization in the US and was initially recommended for healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents, followed by adults aged 65 years and older, adults aged 16–64 with high-risk medical conditions and essential workers [2]. By early April 2021, the vaccine recommendation was extended to the general population aged 16 years and older.

September 25, 2024 - This brief synthesizes insights from global experts on ways to close the COVID-19 vaccine gap among health workers in low-and middle-income countries.

PAUL (03/24/2022) — A survey led by the University of Minnesota, the results of which were published in Vaccine, found that the majority of healthcare workers were accepting of COVID-19 vaccines. "Healthcare workers are invaluable, serving communities at the critical link between public and ...