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News Articles: CDC

Protesters gather outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Wednesday, during a controversial vaccine advisory committee meeting.

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  • Health

'Where's our money?' CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening

The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
New committee members Dr. Robert Malone, left, and Dr. Joseph Hibbeln during the first meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • Health

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers raise disproven fears about the preservative thimerosal

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on the flu vaccine, raising concerns about a rarely used preservative. Medical groups worry this will "sow distrust" in vaccines.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang
A group of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meet this week to discuss vaccine policy.

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  • Health

RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy

For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.

June 25, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Martin Kulldorff, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said it was time to "rebuild public trust" in federal health institutions during a meeting Wednesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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  • Health

Panel picked by RFK Jr. will scrutinize the vaccine schedule for kids

The advisory committee makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the nation's vaccine schedule. Any changes could affect vaccinations for millions of children.

June 25, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
The Department of Health and Human Services notified 400 laid off CDC workers on Wednesday that their reduction in force had been "revoked."

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  • Investigations

More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

Two days after firing vaccine experts who help set the nation's immunization policies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked eight successors for the CDC panel.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang
A mix of former and current CDC employees rallied across the street from the CDC main campus Tuesday to call for the resignation of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the afternoon following Kennedy's disbanding on the CDC advisory panel on immunizations.

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  • Health

Outrage in Atlanta over 'embarrassing and heartbreaking' changes made to CDC by federal government

Current and former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are angered by a recent decision by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to upend an advisory committee that makes vaccine recommendations. 

June 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
On May 21, 2025, Ossoff pressed against the sale of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, securing a commitment from the Interior Secretary. (Screenshot)

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: Okefenokee land, CDC funding, family farms

Georgia's U.S. senators worked on protecting the Okefenokee, urged Senate leadership to fund the CDC, pressing USDA about Georgia family farms, and upgrading Georgia airports.

June 04, 2025
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  • Ambria Burton
COVID vaccine access will be more limited for some groups, after federal health officials changed recommendations.

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  • Health

COVID vaccine changes confuse and upset some parents and families

Federal health officials have changed the game for COVID vaccine access. Pregnant moms and others who rely on them to protect a high-risk family member are scared.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
The CDC's vaccine schedule recommends COVID vaccines for children through 'shared clinical decision-making.' There is no recommendation for pregnant women.

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  • Health

CDC recommends parents talk to a doctor about getting COVID-19 shots for kids

RFK Jr. announced this week that the federal government is removing the recommendation that kids and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 vaccines. But CDC advice is more nuanced.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang and
  • Rob Stein
The CDC team responsible for aggregating and disseminating best practices around contraception has been cut.

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  • Health

After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research

A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
The CDC is removing recommendations that children and pregnant people get the COVID vaccine.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for kids, pregnant women

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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  • Health

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to updated COVID shots, saying they'd continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press
This historic image depicts one of the former Malaria Control in War Areas field station buildings in Newton, Georgia. (Courtesy of CDC)

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  • Health

Why is the CDC located in Atlanta and not D.C.? History tied to Coca-Cola and mosquitoes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deep roots in Atlanta and plays an important role in making the city a public health center. 

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs.

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  • Health

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

April 24, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
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