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Cassidy asks ‘what happened’ with CDC director’s ouster  Politico Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Is Undermining Trust in Public Health, Former C.D.C. Officials Testify  The New York Times Former CDC Officials Testify: Key Moments From the Senate Hearing  The Wall Street Journal Susan Monarez hearing live updates: Former CDC director testifies to Senate after RFK Jr. fired her  NBC News Fired CDC Director & …

Ousted CDC director expected to push back against RFK Jr.’s version of her firing  Politico Former C.D.C. Director to Tell Lawmakers She Was ‘Fired for Holding the Line’  The New York Times Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez to warn of “real risk” for vaccines for children if vaccine panel meets this week  CBS News Ex-CDC director set to tell senators that RFK Jr. …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a grant to study a long-discredited link between vaccines and autism. The agency issued a notice late last week signaling that it will contract with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. for an “investigation of the association between vaccinations and autism prevalence.” According to the notice, the award will …

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the addition of five new members to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), just days ahead of the group’s next meeting. Though the addition of new members to the vaccine advisory board has been rumored for weeks, the announcement …

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is a senior fellow at the Independent Medical Alliance (formerly Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance), which promotes misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and touts unproven and dubious COVID-19 treatments. Those include the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the de-worming drug ivermectin, and various concoctions of vitamins and other drugs. Milhoan has stated that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Five new members have been named to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday, just days ahead of a key meeting about vaccines for Covid-19 and other diseases. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been preparing to appoint as many as …

CDC to award RPI a contract for vaccine-autism research  Times Union HHS to have Rensselaer investigate question of autism-vaccine link  statnews.com RFK Jr.’s CDC and RPI to study already disproven link between autism and vaccines  Axios US CDC to award research contract on vaccines and autism  Reuters CDC Plans To Fund Study On Debunked Autism-Vaccine Link  Disability Scoop Source link

While some experts and health care providers had hoped that next week’s ACIP meeting would add clarity to the situation and allow healthy adults and children better access to the shots, the Post’s reporting suggests that’s unlikely. According to their sources, Kennedy’s ACIP is considering recommending the vaccines to those 75 and older, while instructing those 74 and younger to …

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Hospitalizations linked to the flu reached the highest levels in over a decade last season, according to CDC reporting that comes ahead of what could be another severe flu season. During the 2024-2025 flu season, hospitals saw an unusually high number of severe flu cases. A tracking system recorded nearly 39,000 people hospitalized with the flu between October and April. This …