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Key GOP vote on RFK Jr. faces high-stakes primary - Roll Call

Cassidy, a physician, had expressed concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr's vaccine skepticism, but backed him for HHS secretary nonetheless.

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Trump directive on grants spurs uncertainty for health programs - Roll Call

An order from Trump to temporarily block the disbursement of most federal grants and loans could have a massive impact on health programs.

Roll Call

Trump victory highlights distrust in public health institutions - Roll Call

Public health experts say Kennedy's criticism of U.S. health care institutions reflects rising distrust in institutions among the public.

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Health care needs to diversify its workforce to get rid of racial inequalities, a new report says

A new national report says racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state despite some progress over the past two decades

The Independent UK

Bird flu outbreaks worrying experts

At least six states have reported H5N1 outbreaks in dairy farms. Experts explain what precautions to take

Salon

Post-pandemic vaccine hesitancy fueling latest measles outbreak - Roll Call

Only 92 percent of U.S. adolescents have been vaccinated against measles, while officials recommend a 95 percent vaccination rate.

Roll Call

COVID cases are rising, and all eyes are on new variant BA.2.86 'Pirola.' Should masks make a comeback?

Though not always en vogue politically or much fun, it was never not time to mask, many experts contend—not since COVID began circulating widely in 2020, anyway.

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CDC to reduce funding for states’ child vaccination programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing funding to states for child vaccination programs, according to an agency email obtained by KFF Health News.

Tribune News Service

Biden taps Mandy Cohen — former North Carolina health secretary — to lead CDC

President Biden's pick for the next director of the CDC is Dr. Mandy Cohen, an internal medicine physician with experience in state and federal government.

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Biden's pick to lead the CDC faces tough summer on Capitol Hill - Roll Call

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is staring down several legislative battles as a new director is expected to take the reins.

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Biden to pick Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC - Roll Call

Biden's pick spent five years as the head of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services and served in the Obama administration.

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California’s fentanyl problem is getting worse

California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical care to people who are homeless. The state has an opioid awareness…

Tribune News Service

COVID is still out there. Here's what to do if you get it now

LOS ANGELES — The government is ready to declare COVID-19 over: The nationwide state of emergency is set to end on May 11. In California, the state of emergency concluded in February. Johns Hopkins University shut down its nationwide COVID-19 data tracking this month.

Los Angeles Times

Are raccoon dogs the missing link in the mystery of COVID-19's origins? The answer depends on whom you talk to

New molecular evidence pointing to their presence at the Wuhan wet market tied to COVID's early days is either a smoking gun or a red herring, experts say.

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Here’s what you need to know about norovirus, the highly contagious ‘winter vomiting disease’ that hand sanitizer can’t kill

Norovirus is also nicknamed “the cruise ship virus,” as it easily spreads among people in close quarters.

Fortune

The FDA is proposing a move to annual COVID shots. Some experts worry it’s too soon, and too simple of an approach

The virus has not yet fully settled into a pattern of seasonality and may never, experts caution.

Fortune

A ‘super strain’ of gonorrhea circulating in the U.S. is so powerful that it can evade many antibiotics used to treat it, experts say

The case comes amid “a rising epidemic of sexually transmitted disease” in the U.S., a public health expert told Fortune.

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COVID keeps surging, but life is returning to normal everywhere you look. When will the pandemic really be over?

It’s not over, even though most people seem to think it is, public health professionals say.

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Biden just extended the COVID public health emergency as the highly transmissible Kraken variant drives U.S. cases up

Some public health experts predict that Wednesday’s extension will be the last.

Salon

The quest to make a needle-less vaccine

Shots are despised by children and adults alike for the "ouch" factor. What if we could innovate past that?

Salon

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

Vaccines and boosters weren't enough to protect us from what mutated into the most infectious virus ever known

Tribune News Service

Much of the CDC is working remotely. That could make changing the agency difficult

ATLANTA — Earlier this year, top leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a monumental task: turning the sprawling, labyrinthine organization known for its highly specialized, academically focused scientific research into a sleek, flexible public health response agency primed to serve the American public. It’s an attempt…

Fortune

Doctors are over-prescribing antibiotics during the tripledemic. The shortage could hurt those who truly need them

Some formulations of amoxicillin aren’t available this fall. It’s not the only tripledemic-related drug pharmacies are coming up short on.

Salon

Monkeypox gets a rebrand as mpox

The thorny cultural politics of naming a virus loomed large for the global public health agency

Salon

A spike in infant COVID hospitalizations

A new study from the CDC reveals something ominous about COVID-19 infections among children

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