Izzy Brandstetter Figueroa
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Vaccine recommendations and access, plus measles deaths: 3 questions, zero consensus: The State of US Vaccine Policy (opens the original)
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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have always called this week my limbo week, the stretch that sits uncomfortably between the last "carefree" days of summer and the excitement of getting back into a school year routine. U.S. vaccine policy remains in its own sort of limbo, a limbo era, if you will. We paused this series last week to bring you a view from 30,000 feet, so we're picking back up with a lot to cover: Updated COVID vacci
An executive order, a confirmed director, and 20 straight months of measles: The State of US Vaccine Policy (opens the original)
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Unbiased Science / Izzy Brandstetter Figueroa Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a bit like rattling off a talk show host’s brain-dump at the beginning of an episode. In the two weeks since our last issue, a new executive order on childhood vaccines was issued, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) got a new permanent dire
Over 400 state vaccine bills, 9 new laws, 2 fed charters, and 1 step closer to a CDC director: The State of US Vaccine Policy (opens the original)
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We took a couple of weeks off our biweekly series–in partnership with CIDRAP (the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) at the University of Minnesota–for a mix of reasons, and we’re glad to be back. In the three weeks since our last issue, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) advanced nominees to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), state legislative sessions clo
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