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Dallas News - Dec 27
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the hiring of two former top officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more
Upi - Dec 15
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Monday he is hiring two former top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who were pushed out by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or resigned in protest of his policies. Susan Monarez, former CDC dire... Read more
The Hill - Dec 15
In less than a year, Kennedy, who has made baseless claims about the dangers posed by vaccines for decades, turned the CDC, once considered the global “gold standard” of public health agencies, into what Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respirato... Read more
The Hill - Dec 14It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S. New government data posted Friday shows that as of last week, flu activity was high in four states — Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York — and minimal or low in most... Read more
Apnews - Dec 12
Economist Emily Oster, who specializes in data-driven information for parenting and health, gives advice on what parents should do now that the CDC has voted to make changes to Hep B vaccines for newborns Read more
Cnn - Dec 07
Former CDC chief medical officer Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s policies, details her concerns over the CDC vaccine advisory panel's vote to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns. Read more
Cnn - Dec 06Josh Green, Hawaii's governor, argues that the CDC's change to the childhood vaccine schedule could lead to more disease outbreaks. Green says the CDC is putting the public's health at risk. Read more
Cnn - Dec 06
In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift in US immunization policy that experts say will lead to increased illness. Read more
Cnn - Dec 06
The change represents a continued shift in the agency’s vaccine policy, reflecting increasingly skeptical views. Read more
Time - Dec 06