Isaac Stanley-Becker

‘Of course go after the billionaires first,’ CEO of the high-end Florida facility told fundraisers while covid shots were still scarce.

Private contractors cost taxpayers millions while demonstrating few clear results and papering over weaknesses in the country’s public health system.

A New York firm has filed suit or sent letters to employers in several states, part of an effort spearheaded by one of the largest anti-vaccination groups in the country.

Telling vaccinated people they can discard their masks signals the power of the shots, but critics say the move is hasty and difficult to implement with a majority of Americans still unprotected.

Nancy Messonnier, was replaced last month as head of agency’s vaccine task force, and was director of a key CDC center.

Unordered doses will go into a federal bank available to states where demand continues to outstrip supply.

Low immunization levels suggest vaccine hesitancy is pervasive among emergency workers, posing risks to public safety.

Clinics offering the one-shot vaccine were canceled throughout the country, affecting students, shift workers, rural residents and other hard-to-reach groups.

Pressure on the federal government to rethink its allocation strategy has mounted as access to immunization expands nationwide but new infections are concentrated in just a handful of states, including Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsy…

Andrea Palm, tapped as No. 2 at HHS, has been vilified by Wisconsin Republicans. But her state’s approach to covid-19 vaccinations is working.