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News Articles: CDC

A man in a lab coat and medical mask peers at a lit medical monitor in a darkened room.

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  • Politics

How uncertainty over federal health funding and data is affecting Georgia researchers

Georgia’s statewide public health conference has been canceled, and researchers are navigating disruptions in federal data accessibility and funding.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
A federal judge ordered pages that were deleted from websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies to be restored.

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  • Health

Judge orders restoration of federal health websites

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

February 12, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Sen. Ossoff

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  • Health

Sen. Ossoff and health experts warn public of risk to CDC under Trump administration

On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff held a virtual press conference with Georgia public health experts to express the importance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following President Trump's executive order directing agencies to remove their websites and data with the CDC.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
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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  • Health

Morale plummets at the CDC as staff fear job losses

Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections.

February 08, 2025
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By:
  • Pien Huang and
  • Will Stone
Groups that work to prevent sexual assault and support rape victims are facing funding delays.

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  • Health

Rape crisis centers see funding delays amid Trump administration spending upheaval

Groups addressing sexual violence report not getting expected payments from grants that they depend on to keep running.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was among a group of Democratic senators who wrote to the Department of Health and Human Services demanding answers on the agency's communications pause.

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  • Health

Senate Democrats call for answers on health communications freeze and funding delays

Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • Carmel Wroth
Parts of the website for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been altered and pages have been removed. Some data is back but scientists remain concerned about what's still missing.

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  • Health

Some federal health websites restored, others still down, after data purge

While some information has been restored, scientists are still alarmed over the removal of data. It's not clear what has changed, and some pages remain offline.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang
Young boy coughs or sneezes into crook of elbow

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  • Health

Georgia respiratory disease hospitalizations decline, but flu and COVID could be rising

Georgia hospitalizations for the three most common U.S. respiratory diseases have continued to decline, but updates from COVID-19 and influenza data sources suggest that might change in the coming weeks. 

February 04, 2025
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By:
  • Allen Siegler
Webpages at the CDC and other health agencies went down on Friday.

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  • Health

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.


January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies are under a communications freeze which has affected some regular updates to public-facing health sites.

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  • Health

Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but not others

One of the CDC's weekly health publications was not published on its regular schedule, and some data about flu and vaccinations wasn't updated.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
The Department of Health and Human Services, which has some 90,000 employees, is putting a freeze on most public communications as of Tuesday.

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  • Health

Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications

In a memo obtained by NPR, acting Health Secretary Dorothy Fink forbade staff from public communications on most matters until Feb. 1, unless they get express approval from "a presidential appointee."

January 22, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin,
  • and 1 more
Even as flu cases rise, it's still not too late to get vaccinated.

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  • Health

Winter illnesses return with a vengeance

The annual winter respiratory virus season is in full force. The number of people catching the flu is skyrocketing, while COVID-19, RSV and other respiratory viral illnesses are also rising.

January 08, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
This colorized electron microscope image released by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in March shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (in yellow).

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  • Health

Bird flu update: California declares emergency and U.S. sees 1st severe human case

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized after being exposed to sick and dead birds. Meanwhile, California has declared an emergency over its growing outbreak in cattle.

December 19, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone

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  • News

Former CDC director Tom Frieden says Kennedy poses a 'risk' to the Atlanta-based health agency

If confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have greater control over the Atlanta-based CDC. But just how much?

December 03, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
President-elect Trump has made his choices for three top health positions in his next administration.

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  • Health

What to know about Trump's picks for CDC, FDA and surgeon general

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are key to public health.

November 23, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
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