World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff — who was fired from Harvard Medical School last year after ...

Someday we Americans may stop quarreling over our response to the COVID-19 pandemic — lockdown orders, social distancing and ...

We are interested in the critical tracing coverage, i.e. what proportion of non-household contacts needs to be found and isolated to control the outbreak, for populations with various levels of social ...

As Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) acolytes readily ...

CDC and HHS officials did not immediately respond to questions about the new guidance. Kennedy announced the coming changes in a 58-second video posted on the social media site X on Tuesday.

Prior to Kennedy's announcement, an annual COVID-19 vaccine was recommended for nearly everyone over six months old. The CDC urged people to get an updated shot each year because protection from ...

Traditionally, the CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices would meet and vote on changes to the immunization schedule or recommendations on who should get vaccines before the director ...

Changes to the guidance include de-emphasizing the 6 feet of social distancing that the CDC has advised since early in the pandemic. Instead, the agency advises Americans on what settings are riskier ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

Health alerts about disease outbreaks, previously sent to health professionals subscribed to the CDC's Health Alert Network, haven't been dispatched since March. The agency's main social media ...