VACCINATIONS

After 14 months in operation with more than 500,000 COVID-19 shots administered, the vaccine center will close at 6 p.m. on Friday.

What’s next for the mass vaccination clinic as the omicron surge continues and approval from the CDC is pending for kids as young as 12 to get a booster?

Spots still open for upcoming COVID-19 vaccine clinic for SAISD students ages 5 to 11.

Joshua Kimmich denied he was an "anti-vaxxer" after expressing unease about long-term side effects.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday morning.

It's obvious that more-vaccinated places have fared better in the fourth wave of coronavirus infections.

The White House said last week was the strongest week of first-time vaccinations since early June.

As KSAT 12 gears up for their return first trip back to Oxnard, California since 2019, Greg Simmons reflects on some of the major changes to Cowboys training camp due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging Germans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the more people get the shot “the more free we will be again.”

First- and second-graders line up for Salk Polio vaccine shots on April 23, 1955. Regardless of where anyone stands on the matter, we know that vaccinations have been protecting us from diseases for decades. In 1921, the United States recorded 206,000 cases, which resulted in 15,520 deaths, according to the History of Vaccines website. According to the CDC, polio was once one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. Since 1979, there have been no polio cases that originated in the U.S.

“This is not easy work. If it was easy, we would have done it already,” Lightfoot said at a news conference to talk about COVID-19 vaccinations. “But I’m personally involved, and I’m confident we will get to the right place and be able to present something to the City Council for a vote as soon as we are able.”

We thought it’d be interesting to look through the Getty Images archive, at photos of vaccination efforts from years past. Wellbee's first assignment was to sponsor the Sabin Type II oral polio vaccine campaigns across the United States. Free vaccinations were to be handed out at all city hospitals, health stations, city police stations and at the Department of Health. (CDC/Meridith Hickson/Getty Images)Leo Casey watches aghast as Charles Buzine, 6, receives a shot of polio vaccine. (CDC via Getty)A polio vaccine is tested at the Glaxo Laboratories in Sefton Park, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, Jan. 19, 1956.

12/14: CBSN AM Hospitals expected to start vaccinations; New Honduras caravan heading to U.S. border.

And this week on FACE THE NATION, breaking news this morning as the massive operation to vaccinate hundreds of millions of Americans is officially underway. ALEX AZAR (Health and Human Services Secretary/@SecAzar): Good morning, Margaret. Do it right, do it measured, get the job done right, anticipate problems, but know they're going to be hitches and hiccups as we go and we will work to solve it. ROBERT GARRETT: Well, so far, Margaret, they're-- they're holding up well. I think that's a-- a-- a concerning harbinger for the challenges they're going to face with the vaccine in that last-mile challenge.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar that aired Sunday, December 13, 2020, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: Operation Warp Speed told Pfizer to ship out just short of three million doses this week. AZAR: So- so they're about- they're about 6.4 million doses. And we're shipping half of the remaining, so that's 2.9 million doses going out. That was actually the new part, which said we have 900 million doses under guaranteed contract for the United States.

Measles outbreak prompts school to keep students home Vaccinations almost wiped out measles. But a recent trend in vaccination waivers is believed to have contributed to a new outbreak in southern California. At least one school is now telling certain students to stay home as a way to prevent the outbreak from spreading. Ben Tracy reports.