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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

United States government public health agency

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and worldwide.

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🇺🇸 Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines (2026-04-10)
The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but the agency’s acting direc...
🇺🇸 The Trump administration just updated rules for CDC's vaccine advisory panel, allowing inclusion of RFK Jr. allies (2026-04-10)
The changes published Thursday come after a recent legal defeat that has at least temporarily halted meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunizatio...
🇺🇸 CDC delays COVID vaccine benefits report (2026-04-09)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly delayed the publication of its report detailing the benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine a...
🇺🇸 Fertility rate drops to new record low: CDC (2026-04-09)
The U.S. general fertility rate fell by one percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics fro...
🇺🇸 US CDC delays publishing report showing COVID vaccine benefits, WaPo reports (2026-04-09)
🇺🇸 Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, CDC says (2026-04-09)
The teen birth rate continues its decades-long downward trend. Researchers say many factors are at play, including less sexual activity and more acces...
🇺🇸 Respiratory viruses lingering longer than usual this year (2026-04-09)
While spring has officially begun, concerns about respiratory viruses are lingering longer than usual, with cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)...
🇬🇧 CDC temporarily halts testing for several infectious diseases amid staffing shortages (2026-04-02)
Federal agency, which normally supports state and local public health labs, has been hobbled by staff departures<ul><li><a href="https://www...
🇬🇧 Trump’s Maha agenda stalled as top CDC and surgeon general roles sit empty (2026-03-26)
Trump has yet to nominate a permanent CDC director and the Senate confirmation of his pick for top doctor is in limbo<ul><li><a href="https:...
🇺🇸 CDC's acting chief promises a return to stability in a tumultuous moment (2026-03-26)
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health and interim leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told staff a per...
🇺🇸 Seven months later, the government still hasn't fixed CDC's shot-up windows (2026-03-25)
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 an...
🇺🇸 Trump to Delay Nominating New C.D.C. Director (2026-03-25)
The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on ...
🇺🇸 A leadership vacuum adds to strains on the CDC (2026-03-25)
Low morale, staff turnover and budget issues have sapped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration is expected to so...
🇺🇸 Trump is expected to name a new CDC head. ‘We don’t need a TV personality," one expert said. (2026-03-24)
As the Trump administration prepares to nominate a new director of the CDC, insiders say they worry the nominee will only further undermine trust in t...
🇺🇸 CDC issues new polio advisory for travelers (2026-03-20)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its travel advisory for polio. It now includes 30 locations where the virus was found in the pa...
🇺🇸 HHS chief counselor says encouraged by candidates vying to lead CDC (2026-03-19)
🇺🇸 After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover? (2026-03-13)
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. Atlant...
🇺🇸 Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC continues to fall (2026-03-10)
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC conti...
🇺🇸 Why RFK’s CDC Is Endorsing ‘Shared Decisionmaking’ for Vaccines (2026-03-09)
The MAHA movement is recasting the term—developed in the 1980s to help protect patients against paternalistic medicine—in service of its own agenda....
🇬🇧 ‘How is he going to have the time?’ NIH staff voice concern as Bhattacharya takes on CDC role (2026-03-08)
Scientists fear NIH director will be even more absent and leave key issues unresolved as he takes interim CDC lead<ul><li><a href="https://w...
🇺🇸 CDC staffers deployed to South Carolina to aid measles response (2026-03-05)
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC staffers deployed to South Carolina ...
🇺🇸 CDC acting director Bhattacharya urges use of measles vaccine (2026-03-03)
🇺🇸 Acting CDC director Bhattacharya urges measles vaccines (2026-03-02)
Jay Bhattacharya, the recently appointed acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Monday urged families to consider...
🇺🇸 U.S. closes in on 1,000 measles cases in first two months of 2026 (2026-02-21)
The U.S. has officially logged 982 measles cases in 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday....
🇬🇧 CDC vaccine panel meeting postponed amid RFK Jr bid to reshape policy (2026-02-19)
Postponement of ACIP meeting this month comes as US pediatricians challenge committee’s legitimacy in courtA meeting of the US vaccine advis...
🇺🇸 News Wrap: Bhattacharya to serve as acting head of CDC (2026-02-18)
In our news wrap Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will serve as acting head of the CDC, the FDA reversed its...
🇺🇸 NIH's Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting CDC director (2026-02-18)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less tha...
🇺🇸 NIH's Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director (2026-02-18)
The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a...
🇺🇸 NIH chief to become CDC acting director (2026-02-18)
Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, has been tapped as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
🇺🇸 NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC (2026-02-18)
HHS Deputy Security Jim O'Neill is currently acting CDC director, having taken over in August after HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the former di...
🇺🇸 US NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC (2026-02-18)