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CDC Vaccines Chief Says Every Single Vaccine Should Be Optional
The Trump-appointed head of the federal panel that recommends vaccines is saying that polio and measles vaccines—and perhaps every…
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“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
The health newsletter Inside Medicine obtained the protocols for a study receiving $1.6 million to experiment on babies in Guinea-Bissau.…
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CDC committee drops hep B vaccine for all newborns over objections from health officials
A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to drop a decades-old recommendation to…
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RFK Jr. Personally Changed CDC Policy on Linking Vaccines and Autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its long-held…
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CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism with false and misleading statements
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has altered its website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that…
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RFK Jr. Makes Up Batshit Reason for Why CDC Director Was Fired
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave an absolutely vexing answer to a basic question on why he fired Center for…
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Famous Liar RFK Jr. Accuses Ousted CDC Director of Lying
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that Susan Monarez, the ousted head of the Centers for Disease Control…
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Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to President Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago.…
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Trump Picks Nightmare Peter Thiel Acolyte to Replace CDC Director
During a Thursday CNN appearance, Daskalakis advised senators to ask Kennedy at his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee next…
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CDC Official Makes Shocking Confession About RFK Jr.’s Intel
On Thursday evening, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis—who recently resigned from a high-level role at the Centers for Disease Control—revealed a…
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White House’s Argument on Ousted CDC Director Gets More Unbelievable
Then came the Q&A portion, beginning with a question about whether Moore believes consumers pay for Trump’s tariffs. “So, right now, what…
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Now We Know Why RFK Jr. Wanted to Fire This CDC Director
Stunningly, the lawsuit also names Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Board of Governors as defendants. Trump on Monday fired…
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Top CDC Officials Quit and Leave Behind Dire Warning About RFK Jr.
The outgoing officials are Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization…
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CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job and other agency leaders resign
The director of the nation's top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have…
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CDC Director Remarkably Ousted After Less Than a Month on the Job
The Defense Department lost the most workers—more than 55,000 federal civilian employees were given the chop, HuffPost reported. The…
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Posts misidentify CDC headquarters shooter
Posts are claiming police identified the shooter who killed an officer near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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RFK Jr.'s panel gives update on reviewing childhood vaccine schedule
By Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily…
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Salmonella recall: List of products impacted
Three different companies' products have been pulled from shelves in the past four days due to concerns about salmonella contamination.…
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RFK Jr. says US will know cause of autism 'epidemic 'by September
By Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily…
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Trump Finally Takes Revenge on CDC With Total Bloodbath
Other states, such as Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Alaska will lose the majority of their funding, while Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana,…
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RFK Jr. makes sweeping cuts in federal health programs, including CDC, FDA
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans Thursday to slash the Department of Health and Human Services, cutting nearly a quarter of its…
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Deadly, drug-resistant fungus CDC calls 'urgent threat' is spreading in hospitals
A deadly, drug-resistant fungus that preys on the sick and old is continuing to spread in hospitals and senior care facilities across the…
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What is hantavirus, the rare disease that killed Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife?
Officials announced Friday that Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife, had died of hantavirus — ending speculation about the circumstances…
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A second death may be linked to U.S. measles outbreak, an unvaccinated New Mexico man
An unvaccinated New Mexico man who recently died was found to be infected with measles. His death could be the second in an ongoing…