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CDC's Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices Meets In Atlanta

'Where's our money?' CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening

7:00am June 28, 2025

The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.

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RFK Jr.'s New CDC Panel To Review Childhood Vaccine Schedule

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers raise disproven fears about the preservative thimerosal

2:52pm June 26, 2025

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on the flu vaccine, raising concerns about a rarely used preservative. Medical groups worry this will "sow distrust" in vaccines.

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Panel picked by RFK Jr. will scrutinize the vaccine schedule for kids

3:21pm June 25, 2025

The advisory committee makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the nation's vaccine schedule. Any changes could affect vaccinations for millions of children.

Supporoters and former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rally outside of the CDC Chamblee campus

RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy

5:00am June 25, 2025

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For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.

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More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

5:00am June 12, 2025

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

HHS Sec. RFK Jr. Discusses CDC's Latest Autism Survey

RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

7:49pm June 11, 2025

Two days after firing vaccine experts who help set the nation's immunization policies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked eight successors for the CDC panel.

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.