CDC union says vaccine misinformation put staff at risk after Atlanta shooting Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says union The Guardian - US · Aug 10, 2025
RFK Jr could soon lead the HHS. Here are the different health agencies it oversees The member of the Kennedy dynasty has promised to significantly change how the department he could soon lead functions The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025
Editorial: The first emergency: Teen mental health must be addressed to fix anything else The past few years have gotten us used to bad news from the Centers for Disease Control, and this week was more of the same, yet this time it had nothing to do with COVID. The agency’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about one in three high-school age girls… Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2023
Commentary: Age: Is it really just a number? In 1957, the decade-old Centers for Disease Control prohibited individuals under 21 from receiving vaccines during the major influenza epidemic of that year unless they had signatures granting parental permission. A 20-year-old college junior at the time, I was miles away from home, and the necessary approval paperwork for the… Tribune News Service · Nov 23, 2022
Lisa Jarvis: More COVID boosters are coming, but who will take them? Once a week, typically on the day that the Centers for Disease Control updates its COVID data tracker, I send my dad a text: “Did you make an appointment to get your booster?” Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022
A trauma surgeon details the brutal impact of shootings, even for survivors Elizabeth Benjamin, trauma medical director at Grady Memorial hospital in Atlanta, explains the dire implications day-to-day gun violence has on public health. WEKU · Jul 9, 2022
US has thrown out more than 82m Covid vaccine doses In the US more than 588m doses have been given during the pandemic The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022
Monkeypox is not a gay disease and should not be compare to HIV, top TV doctor says Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monkeypox is spreading in the LGBT+ community globally but there's no need for ' hysteria', Dr Ranj Singh says Daily Mirror · May 24, 2022
All of South Florida moves into high COVID risk category after ‘processing error‘ in state’s data FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — All three South Florida counties have high COVID-19 community levels, despite the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control showing the region having medium levels. Tribune News Service · May 21, 2022
Possible NYC monkeypox case reported, with patient isolating and contact tracing started NEW YORK — An unidentified New York patient tested positive for a virus that includes monkeypox, with the federal Centers for Disease Control investigating to determine whether the rare disease is actually present, city health officials said. Tribune News Service · May 21, 2022
Trump-appointed judge says US must continue to expel migrants under public health law Judge Robert Summerhays’ ruling blocks the Centers for Disease Control from reversing a Trump-era policy which allows border patrol agents to expel asylum seekers without considering their claims The Independent UK · May 20, 2022
CDC recommends US travellers test for Covid before domestic trips US has now passed death toll of one million since start of pandemic The Independent UK · May 18, 2022
VIDEO: Freedom Flight: US Plane Passengers Cheer As Mask Mandate Dropped The scenes were filmed onboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Saint Louis, and the footage was shared on Twitter. Zenger · Apr 20, 2022
Trump’s surgeon general condemns ‘single unelected judge’ who overturned mask mandate on planes ‘I’m just a judge, and I’m hurting you cuz I’ve got a grudge’ The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2022
Inverse · Apr 13, 2022 The pandemic’s first year impeded S.T.D. screening, a new CDC report says The Centers for Disease Control released its 2020 Surveillance report on sexually transmitted diseases, which showed an overall increase in incidences.
Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2022 COVID more likely to cause heart problems than vaccine, CDC study finds While COVID vaccinations increased cardiac risks in some young men, the virus itself was much more likely to cause heart problems, the Centers for Disease Control found in a study released Friday.
The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022 COVID-19 asylum limits at US-Mexico border to end May 23 The Centers for Disease Control says it's ending a policy that limited asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2022 COVID positivity rates across South Florida fall below 5%; total deaths in state surpass 70,000 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The COVID-19 testing positivity rate has fallen below 5% in South Florida’s three counties — a level at which public health experts say the virus is considered under control — according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.