CDC’s ability to prevent injuries like drowning, traumatic brain injury and falls is severely compromised by Trump cuts

Preventable injuries and deaths kill more Americans in the first half of life than any other cause, including cancer. Yet the ...

Government Shutdown Delays CDC Health Tracking as Flu Season Approaches

At the time of the shutdown, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Jim O'Neill said "mission-critical ...

The disaster at the CDC, explained by its former boss

The consequences of the CDC’s gutting will be diffuse, given the agency’s many different functions, and they could take some ...

Government shutdown means many CDC experts are skipping a pivotal meeting on infectious disease

ATLANTA (AP) — CDC researchers are being forced to skip a pivotal conference on infectious disease this week due to the ...
STAT

Doctor groups need to ‘step up to the plate’ as CDC guidance becomes harder to trust, former leaders say

Layoffs, leadership changes, and politics have made CDC information less trustworthy, former CDC officials say at STAT Summit ...

CDC cuts, chaos is straining public health in Kentucky. Here's how

Amid deep cuts to CDC staff and programs, trust in the agency is slipping among some Kentucky public health officials.
Yahoo

Former acting CDC director says he ‘can’t look to’ center for trusted info

Richard Besser, the former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says he “can’t look” to the CDC for trustworthy medical information on Sunday. “My biggest takeaway ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CDC updates mask information, stops short of changing recommendation

The CDC on Jan. 14 updated its consumer mask webpage to reflect the levels of protection different masks and respirators offer against COVID-19. “It is important to remember that any mask is better ...
MSNBC on MSN

CDC deletes info on HIV, LGBTQ care from website to comply with Trump’s attack on diversity

Public health information related to LGBTQ care and to HIV was scrubbed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...
MedPage Today on MSN

Meet the Grassroots CDC Teams Fighting Against Firings

CDC Alumni and Friends has coordinated rallies outside of CDC campuses every week since Feb. 18 -- except for the 2 weeks ...
Homeland Security Today

Maximus Awarded $100 Million Contract by CDC to Extend CDC-INFO Program

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Operations Center (EOC) staff is hard at work keeping Americans safe 24/7. In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...