Nomination of Susan Monarez for CDC Director Advances to Full Senate
(photo courtesy ARPA-H) On July 9, 2025, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) voted 12 to 11 to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Monarez, who holds a doctorate degree in microbiology and immunology and has been serving […]
Doomsday Chorus Targeting Kennedy Gets Louder
In a show of protest against budget and staffing cuts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), former employees of the agency, scientists, and community activists organized a “die-in” demonstration outside the CDC’s Roybal Road campus in Atlanta, Georgia. On May 2, 2025, the Trump administration proposed a budget to Congress for […]
CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel Purged
On June 9, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fired all 17 members of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) committee that makes national vaccine policy—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). “A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” Secretary Kennedy […]
Media Blatantly Misinforms the Public on COVID Vaccination
In a video post on the social media platform X on May 27, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stated: The COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to […]
Autism Epidemic ‘Unprecedented in Human History,’ Now Reaches 1 in 31 Kids in America
On Apr. 15, 2025, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an analysis in its epidemiological digest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which found the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children eight years old in the United States to be 1 in 31 (3.2 percent).1 2 3 4 5 […]
FDA Approves Freeze-Dried Smallpox/Mpox Vaccine
On Mar. 31, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the freeze-dried formulation of Bavarian Nordic A/S’s Jynneos vaccine for smallpox and mpox (formerly monkey pox) in adults 18 years of age and older. The liquid-frozen formulation of the vaccine was approved by the FDA on Sept. 24, 2019, but that version requires […]