HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering removing the COVID-19 vaccine from CDC's schedule of recommended immunizations for children, according to two people familiar with the situation.

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.

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.

Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy’s actions ‘destabilizing’ U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new people to the influential panel.

Dismissed Members of CDC Vaccine Committee Call Kennedy's Actions 'Destabilizing' NEW YORK (AP) — All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel published an essay ...

One, Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, resigned after 12 years at CDC, disclosing her decision early this month in a note to members of a COVID-19 vaccines workgroup.

US CDC Official in Charge of COVID, RSV Data Resigns Ahead of Vaccine Meeting By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -A U.S. government scientist who oversees the team responsible for collecting ...

Melinda Wharton, the top CDC vaccine official who oversaw ACIP operations, was removed from her role last week. She was in charge of staff who gather and present vaccine data.

“High level” discussions are underway to establish an independent US vaccine committee following the dismissal of 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on ...

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 16 ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to remove all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, an independent panel of experts, is raising questions ...

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 16, ...