“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 ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisers meet next week, but their agenda suggests they'll skip some expected topics — including a vote on COVID-19 shots — while taking up a ...

"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 ...

At least six of the authors who’d worked at the CDC had been laid off earlier that month, when their entire division was slashed by the Trump administration’s cuts. In a way, the paper was a ...

The move comes after a week of mixed messages on COVID vaccine recommendations. An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw the agency's recommendations for COVID-19 ...

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 ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 1, the staff of the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was terminated as part of the agency's reduction in force, according to NPR. The staff included epidemiologists ...

The officer, Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatrician, was the CDC co-lead of the group of independent vaccine advisers that had spent months reviewing evidence for annual Covid-19 shots for ...