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NPR talks to Claire Hannan, who has helped navigate vaccine rollouts in all 50 states, about some of the challenges involved in quickly getting shots out to millions of young kids.
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While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them.
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COVID-19 vaccinations for children younger than 5 could start right after the Juneteenth holiday.
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As parents scramble to find scarce baby formula and the government races to boost production and imports, some advocates say the U.S. should do more to encourage breastfeeding.
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Pfizer plans to submit new data to the Food and Drug Administration this week, bringing families with young children one step closer to a long-awaited vaccine.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advice opens a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older.
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The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot.
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The latest data shows 43% of baby formula products in the nation were out of stock. Some families say finding it has become a full-time job. They're anxious about the future.
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The average out-of-stock rate for baby formula at retailers across the country was 43% during the first week of May, according to the firm Datasembly.
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Dr. Scott Rivkees contradicts much of the evidence given by Florida’s health department in recommending that healthy children need not be vaccinated for COVID-19.
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USF Health professor Jill Roberts provides some possible explanations for this drop, including vaccine hesitancy that the COVID-19 pandemic intensified.
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A reexamination of American Academy of Pediatrics treatment recommendations has doctors concerned that Black youngsters have been undertreated and overlooked,