Only 13% of children in the U.S. received the 2024-2025 COVID vaccine. The shot was added to the CDC's panel of routine immunizations after ACIP unanimously endorsed its inclusion in 2022.

The CDC director job hasn't required Senate confirmation, but that's going to change beginning in January 2025, thanks to a provision in the recent omnibus budget bill passed by Congress.

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists They will take up a longtime target of anti-vaccine groups: the preservative thimerosal in flu vaccines ...

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists They will take up a longtime target of anti-vaccine groups: the preservative thimerosal in flu vaccines ...

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists They will take up a longtime target of anti-vaccine groups: the preservative thimerosal in flu vaccines ...

“It’s a very transparent, rigorous process, and they have just taken a sledgehammer to it in the last several weeks,” she said. “CDC processes are being corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before.” ...

Thimerosal is a longtime target of antivaccine activists Thimerosal was added to certain vaccines in the early 20th century to make them safer and more accessible by preventing bacterial contamination ...

Fact check: RFK Jr.'s flawed justifications for ‘clean sweep' of CDC vaccine advisory panel The few examples of conflicts of interest that Kennedy provided are either misconstrued or many ...