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Though not always en vogue politically or much fun, it was never not time to mask, many experts contend—not since COVID began circulating widely in 2020, anyway.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing funding to states for child vaccination programs, according to an agency email obtained by KFF Health News.

President Biden's pick for the next director of the CDC is Dr. Mandy Cohen, an internal medicine physician with experience in state and federal government.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is staring down several legislative battles as a new director is expected to take the reins.

Biden's pick spent five years as the head of North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services and served in the Obama administration.

California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical care to people who are homeless. The state has an opioid awareness…

LOS ANGELES — The government is ready to declare COVID-19 over: The nationwide state of emergency is set to end on May 11. In California, the state of emergency concluded in February. Johns Hopkins University shut down its nationwide COVID-19 data tracking this month.

New molecular evidence pointing to their presence at the Wuhan wet market tied to COVID's early days is either a smoking gun or a red herring, experts say.

Norovirus is also nicknamed “the cruise ship virus,” as it easily spreads among people in close quarters.

The virus has not yet fully settled into a pattern of seasonality and may never, experts caution.

The case comes amid “a rising epidemic of sexually transmitted disease” in the U.S., a public health expert told Fortune.