Will Stone summarizes the CDC advisory committee’s rollback of two vaccines for kids and the restrictions on the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Have you ever been so consumed by a crush that you couldn’t stop thinking about them? Or when you weren’t around them, you felt sick to your stomach? There’s a …
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Sandals outside a brothel on the Uganda-Kenya highway. Among the many losses after the U.S. aid cuts: free condoms and PrEP for sex workers. Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson for NPR hide …
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers add COVID vaccine rules in contentious meeting : Shots
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesACIP member Retsef Levi points to a slide while speaking during a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on September 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. The federal …
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CDC vaccine panel opens Day 2 with a reversal and a surprise : Shots
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMartin Kulldorff (right) speaks with Robert Malone during a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on September 18, 2025 in Chamblee, Ga. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption …
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Wildfire smoke is killing Americans. A new study shows how many : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPeople take pictures at a vista point with the San Francisco skyline obscured by smoke from wildfires during a spate of smoke during 2020, one of the worst wildfire smoke …
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NPR speaks with Debra Houry, the CDC’s former chief medical officer, about her decision to leave her post and her concerns over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine decisions. …
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CDC’s ACIP debates changing guidance on hepatitis B and MMRV vaccines : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory group is considering changing recommendations for the MMRV and hepatitis B vaccines. Ben Hendren/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ben Hendren/Bloomberg/Getty …
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Former CDC director says she was fired for resisting pressure from RFK Jr.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSusan Monarez, the ousted director of the CDC, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the health secretary pressured her to rubber stamp vaccine policies without reviewing scientific evidence.
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CDC’s vaccine advisers meet this week. Here’s how they could affect policy : Shots
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMembers of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meet at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. in June. Ben Hendren/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption …