As shutdown ends, dubious CDC panel gets back to dismantling vaccine schedule

With the government reopening, the dubious panel of vaccine advisors selected by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.
MedPage Today

RFK Jr. Ends CDC Recommendation for COVID Vaccine in Healthy Kids, Pregnant Women

The CDC dropped its recommendation that healthy children and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 shots, health regulators announced. In a video posted to X, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Washington Examiner

CDC hit with new workforce cuts, including some in error

A large number of federal workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were laid off, including some in error, as part of the Trump administration‘s response to the government shutdown, ...
Chicago Tribune

CDC stops recommending COVID-19 shots for all, leaves decision to patients

NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted recommendations by a new group of vaccine advisers, and stopped recommending COVID-19 shots for anyone — leaving the choice up to ...
NPR

The CDC still hasn't issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo

Remy Sweeney-Garrett desperately wants to get her daughters vaccinated against COVID-19. But so far that's been impossible. "I'm very worried, and frustrated," says Sweeney-Garrett, 34, who lives in ...
Scientific American

Here’s What Happened at RFK, Jr.’s Overhauled Vaccine Panel Meeting

This week’s meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices represented a notable departure from its prior practice of presenting and debating ...
MSNBC

Ousted CDC director says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change childhood vaccine schedule

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to make changes to the childhood immunization schedule in September, according to the ousted director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
IJR

Ousted CDC Director Dithers On Key Questions About Firing During Senate Hearing

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez testified in a Senate hearing Wednesday about her heated dispute with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but ...
Rolling Stone

Ousted CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Tried to Bar Her From Speaking to Lawmakers

Former high-ranking officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told senators on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment as the nation’s top health care regulator has ...
Scientific American

U.S. Vaccine Guidance Is in Chaos, Fired CDC Director Tells Senators

At a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, Susan Monarez, the recently fired director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that her erstwhile boss, Secretary of Health and Human ...
STAT

I’m a former CDC director. I’m deeply concerned about the future of vaccines in the U.S.

Walensky served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When I assumed leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the height of the Covid pandemic ...
Healthcare Dive

A key CDC panel meets this week to discuss vaccines. Here’s what to know.

A federal vaccine panel will meet this week for the second time since it was remade by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Typically a routine affair to update vaccine schedules ...