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News Articles: CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shown Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Atlanta.

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Seven months later, the government still hasn't fixed CDC's shot-up windows

The federal government has not yet replaced the bullet-pocked windows that serve as a grim reminder of an attack at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than seven months ago.

March 26, 2026
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By:
  • Associated Press
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, will continue to also oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while the administration searches for a permanent director.

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  • Health

A leadership vacuum adds to strains on the CDC

Low morale, staff turnover and budget issues have sapped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration is expected to soon name a new director, who will have their hands full.

March 25, 2026
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By:
  • Pien Huang

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  • Health

Federal judge pauses changes made by the CDC's vaccine advisory committee

Georgia physicians say navigating the overhaul of vaccine recommendations has been confusing for them and their patients. 

March 18, 2026
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A federal judge in Boston blocked changes to U.S. vaccine policies championed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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  • Health

Federal judge halts RFK Jr.'s changes to children's vaccine policies

In a rebuke, a federal district court judge blocked the administration's reduction in the number of immunizations recommended for kids and also changes to an influential vaccine committee.

March 17, 2026
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By:
  • Rob Stein
At a recent meeting of the MAHA Institute, vaccine critics said injuries from immunizations are an epidemic.

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  • Health

Vaccine critics keep the pressure on, even as RFK Jr. shifts focus

Anti-vaccine activists rally supporters to try to keep the momentum going on changing federal vaccine policies. This comes even as the White House tries to tamp down attention to the unpopular issue ahead of the midterm elections, and a powerful federal advisory committee plans to meet to consider even more moves.

March 16, 2026
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Demonstrators protest staffing cuts outside the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on April 1, 2025. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid off thousands of HHS employees across multiple agencies, as part of an overhaul announced in March, 2025.

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  • Health

After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover?

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

March 13, 2026
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By:
  • Jess Mador
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meet in Atlanta in September 2025. (Rebecca Grapevine / Healthbeat)

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  • Health

Controversial federal vaccine advisory committee: Deadline is Thursday to comment on March ACIP meeting

A controversial federal vaccine advisory committee, which is scheduled to meet next week to discuss COVID-19 vaccine injuries and Long COVID has set a Thursday deadline for the public to submit comments.

March 09, 2026
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By:
  • Alison Young and
  • Healthbeat
OMB Director Russell Vought (center, behind President Trump) is the lead defendant in a lawsuit brought by four state attorneys general over more than $600 million in cuts to CDC grants announced this week. Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and Interior Sec. Doug Burgum are also pictured in the Oval Office in June 2025.

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  • Health

A familiar move with a new twist: Trump tries to cut CDC funds he just signed into law

A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million in CDC grants to four blue states.

February 13, 2026
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Retired and fired employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta commemorate a year since the Trump Administration mandated a reduction in force of over 2,000 of public health staff, part of a restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services. An estimated 300 people are still on administrative leave.

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  • Health

Public health workers reflect on a year since mass layoffs at the CDC

By the end of 2025, between a quarter to a third of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been terminated. 

February 11, 2026
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
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  • News

Georgia Today: CDC Employee Payments; MLK historic park addition; Democrats tackle affordability

On the Feb. 11 edition: A year ago, about ten percent of jobs at the CDC were cut, but many of those CDC employees are still being paid; The National Park Service mark the addition of a historic building to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park in Atlanta; Georgia House Democrats have unveiled a legislative package aimed at tackling affordability.

February 11, 2026
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Mark Davenport
South Carolina State Rep. Rosalyn Henderson-Myers (D-Spartanburg) stands outside a mobile clinic offering free measles vaccinations on Friday in Spartanburg, S.C. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't issued a health alert related to the measles outbreak there.

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  • Health

A drop in CDC health alerts leaves doctors 'flying blind'

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.

February 06, 2026
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A health care worker prepares syringes, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), for a child's inoculations at the International Community Health Services Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in Seattle. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

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  • Health

Georgia physicians navigate new vaccine recommendations with skepticism

The new immunization recommendations developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put an emphasis on the very practice many physicians say they’re already doing.

February 05, 2026
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A child receives an immunization at a Florida pediatrician's office in Sept. 2025.

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  • Health

Flu shot recommendation for kids dropped just as the illness rages

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases and hospitalizations are surging.

January 12, 2026
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A bandage is seen on a child's arm after she received a COVID vaccine on November 3, 2021 in Shoreline, Washington.

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  • Health

The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here's what they prevent

The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death in children from rotavirus, hepatitis and other pathogens.

January 09, 2026
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By:
  • Arthur Allen and
  • Jackie Fortiér
A small child receives a vaccination shot

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  • Children's Health

The CDC just sidelined these childhood vaccines. Here’s what they prevent

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability and death.

January 07, 2026
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