Havers had led the CDC's Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network, or RESP-NET, that collects and studies trends in hospitalizations from COVID-19, RSV and influenza.

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

With U.S. recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines in flux, a leading member of the CDC's COVID vaccine advisory group is reportedly jumping ship. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, M.D., a nearly 10-year ...

What to know about changes in CDC guidance for COVID-19 vaccine A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Tuesday she was resigning from her role overseeing updates to the agency ...

Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos on Tuesday stepped down as co-leader of a CDC work group that helps shape the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, and is ...

Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on social media that his agency was removing the CDC recommendation for the Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.

Updated guidance on the CDC website appears to be walking back some of the changes for healthy children and pregnant women that RFK announced earlier this week.

Children as young as 6-months-old may still receive COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC advised Thursday — but the shot is no longer recommended for healthy kids.

The nation's top public health agency posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get COVID-19 vaccinations, removing stronger language that those groups should get ...

So far, the CDC's changes echo what the committee had already been considering voting on next month: narrowing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations to only older adults and younger ages with risk ...

The changes come as the CDC's tally of measles cases has begun to show signs of accelerating again. At least 1,088 cases of measles have been reported so far this year, the CDC said Friday, with ...

The Covid-19 vaccine remains on the CDC's revised schedule of childhood vaccinations despite HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement.