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America Marks 5 Years Since Country Shut Down For Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID vaccine changes confuse and upset some parents and families

11:02am June 03, 2025

Federal health officials have changed the game for COVID vaccine access. Pregnant moms and others who rely on them to protect a high-risk family member are scared.

RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for kids, pregnant women

12:47pm May 27, 2025

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.

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Musk, Department Of Government Efficiency Move To Shut Down USAID

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

12:12pm April 24, 2025

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

Mother and two children struck and killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn, New York: driver operating suspended license

With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

12:24pm April 21, 2025

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

First meeting of CDC vaccine advisers under RFK Jr. is mostly 'business as usual'

6:35pm April 16, 2025

An independent vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met to discuss and vote on vaccine policy for the first time since the change in administrations.

RFK Jr. seeks 'environmental' cause of autism. Scientists say it's not that simple

5:31pm April 16, 2025

Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.

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Large Scale Layoffs Begin At Center For Disease Control In Atlanta

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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help

2:31pm April 16, 2025

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.

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Six Months After Hurricane Helene, Western NC Still Working On Recovery

DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims

9:00am April 15, 2025

The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

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After delays, first vaccine advisory meeting under RFK Jr. is underway

5:01am April 15, 2025

For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more.

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Coal miners' health care hit hard in job cuts to CDC

5:00am April 09, 2025

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.

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