New CDC leaders vow to boost skeleton staff left after DOGE cuts

New top leaders at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told staff they’re focused on hiring more people, ...
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Emails Reveal How RFK Jr. Empowered a Lone CDC Scientist

William Thompson made demands of and criticized CDC leadership ...

CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal.

The study found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by ...

COVID Vaccine Study Previously Blocked By CDC Is Out — Here's What It Found

A COVID-19 vaccine study blocked by the CDC's acting director was published in a scientific journal. The study affirmed that ...
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Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Susan Monarez said she was fired from her role for not rubber-stamping vaccine recommendations ...
New York Post

Ex-CDC boss Susan Monarez accuses RFK Jr. of firing her after she voiced fears over his hand-picked vaccine panel to Congress

WASHINGTON — Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez accused her ex-boss, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of demanding she pre-approve ...
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NIH director reportedly being tapped as acting CDC director

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, is expected to take on an additional role as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The ...
USA Today

Trump nominates Erica Schwartz as new CDC director

President Donald Trump has nominated former Deputy Surgeon General Erica Schwartz, a physician, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schwartz is a retired rear admiral in the ...