“The CDC and HHS encourage individuals to talk with their healthcare provider on any medical decisions,” a Kennedy spokesman told the Washington Post. WASHINGTON −The Centers for Disease ...

Updates to the CDC's childhood immunization schedule were published late Thursday, following an announcement earlier this week by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the ...

“The announcement from earlier this week sounded like CDC was going to fully withdraw any statement that could be construed as a recommendation for these vaccines in these populations,” said ...

Five hours later, CDC officials received a one-page “secretarial directive,” dated May 19 and signed by Kennedy, that contradicts some of what he said in his video, according to two current ...

"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule ...

The CDC now advises all international travelers to be fully vaccinated against measles, regardless of destination, due to rising US cases. As of May 2025, 1,088 measles cases were confirmed in the ...

Since the beginning of the year, the CDC has received at least 62 reports of travelers who were contagious with the highly transmissible virus while flying into the U.S. or within the country ...

Kennedy Jr. last week. Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos on Tuesday stepped down as co-leader of a CDC work group that helps shape the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine ...

Official who resigned co-led work group on COVID-19 vaccine use Move follows RFK Jr.'s changes to vaccine immunization schedule without CDC advisers' input Vaccine advisory panel meeting set for ...

Reuters first reported news of her resignation. Panagiotakopoulos and a CDC spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The process to update the CDC's influential vaccine ...

Cases have been reported in all but 18 states this year, the CDC said Friday. New York and New York City are listed separately among the 33 jurisdictions listed. Two more states -- Iowa and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated advice on the COVID-19 vaccine days after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said the agency would no longer ...