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Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News

Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News

June 2025: Understanding recent announcements about COVID-19 vaccines

Dr. Paul Offit discusses recent announcements related to COVID-19 vaccines, including a proposed framework for thinking about COVID-19 vaccines and an announcement about who will be able to get COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Offit also describes how these announcements were aberrations from the usual approach to vaccine review, licensure and recommendations and how that has caused confusion and questions.

COVID resources

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May 2025: Measles — How did we get here, and how bad is this?

Dr. Paul Offit talks about the growing measles outbreak in the United States, explaining that the number of cases is higher than CDC reports, and how we know that. He says that underfunding and misinformation have hindered the response to the current epidemic and that vaccination is remarkably safe.

Measles resources

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