Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced more key changes to the CDC recommendations for COVID-19 ...

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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, about the CDC's new guidelines on COVID vaccines for kids and pregnant women.

THURSDAY, May 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts.

A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory ...

Some members now say they fear that its guidelines will be frozen ... any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings.

Four committee members said the CDC delivered the news about Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory ... was nearing the completion of new guidelines for airborne pathogens before the ...

A handful of committee members said the CDC delivered ... care-associated infections. It shared guidelines on disinfection and sterilization, environmental infection control and hand hygiene ...

HICPAC was charged with updating guidelines and policy statements on infectious disease prevention in United States hospitals, according to the CDC. Infection prevention and control professionals ...