Under direction of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is considering changes to its recommendations on vaccines ...

Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...

There have already been at least 43 million illnesses, 560,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from seasonal influenza thus far ... and deaths remain elevated, and CDC expects several more ...

Already 63 children have died—three-quarters of whom were not vaccinated, according to CDC officials (via CNN ... with high rates of hospitalization for both influenza and its complications. . . .

The Maine CDC says a child’s death has been linked to the flu. State health officials say there were notified that the child had died on March 19. The child tested positive for influenza B.

A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica in a written statement that the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.” ...

One user wrote, “Trump’s new CDC director…oof.” This claim is false. The tweet is from 2021, when Monarez was not director of the CDC. Monarez became acting CDC director on Jan. 15 ...