KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Fall 2026 Update on Vaccine Views
Key Takeaways In the months following two events that put vaccine safety in the spotlight—President Trump’s executive order calling for...
How Is The Federal Government Counting Measles Deaths?
Originally published on October 1, 2026, this policy watch has been updated on October 15, 2026 to reflect additional developments...
Different State Regulatory Approaches Reflect Open Questions About AI Mental Health Tools — The Monitor
Executive Order Calls for Changes to Childhood Vaccine Schedule, As Officials Repeat Unsupported Claims About Vaccine Safety What happened? An...
State and Local Policies on School Vaccine Requirements: Overview and Current Status
Key Points The Constitution gives authority to state and local governments, not the federal government, to set school vaccine requirements...
Kindergarten Routine Vaccination Rates Continue to Decline
As measles cases rise across the U.S., children’s routine vaccination rates continue to decline while exemptions from school vaccination requirements,...
The White House Takes Another Shot at Changing U.S. Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
A new Executive Order (EO) released by the White House on Monday is the latest in a series of administration...
Measles Elimination Status: What It Is and How the U.S. Could Lose It
Originally published in July 2025, this policy watch has been updated in April 2026 to reflect additional developments and updated...
Bhattacharya faces Senate grilling on NIH disruptions
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., spent much of a Senate committee hearing dancing around direct...
KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents: Polling Insights on the MAHA Movement
At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump established the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by...
KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents
Large majorities of parents have positive views of long-standing childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and polio, saying...
