10 entries in the ledger
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withheld the two measles-associated deaths reported by Pennsylvania on Aug. 25 from its weekly national measles death count, posting a footnote saying available information...
Congress appropriated $41 million this year for the CDC’s Alzheimer’s disease program and $246 million for its Office on Smoking and Health, but no one is staffing either, the Associated Press reported. The same is true...
The Senate voted 51-44 on Aug. 5, 2026, to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vote fell along party lines except for Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the only...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on July 24, 2026 that 2,318 measles cases have been confirmed in the United States this year, surpassing 2025's record of 2,289 and marking the highest total since...
Fourteen state attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania sued the Department of Health and Human Services in late February 2026 over changes to federal childhood immunization policy. The suit challenges the...
On January 5, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, acting on a presidential memorandum, narrowed the routine childhood immunization schedule from 17 diseases to 11. Acting CDC director Jim O'Neill...
On November 19, 2025, the CDC replaced its longstanding webpage stating that vaccines do not cause autism with new language asserting that the claim is "not evidence-based" because, it said, studies have not fully ruled...
At a two-day meeting on September 18 and 19, 2025, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to move COVID-19 vaccination for everyone six months and older to shared clinical decision-making, replacing...
On August 27, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the departure of CDC Director Susan Monarez, who had been sworn in on July 31 — the shortest tenure of any director in the agency's 79-year...
On June 9, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 sitting members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the independent expert panel whose recommendations shape CDC...