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Topic: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Susan Monarez takes part in a hearing on her nomination for Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s requests went against "oath"

Garrett Owen
Former Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry and former Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Susan Monarez testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony from fired CDC employees and the implications on children’s health. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s policies end in "kids dying"

Garrett Owen
(Grace Cary/Getty Images)

Vaccines: More important than you think

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Romaine lettuce (Getty Images/Manjurul)

Agencies keep mum about E. coli outbreak

Joy Saha
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A tray with Big Mac, french fries and Coca-Cola is seen on a table in a McDonald's restaurant. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

McDonald's faces E. coli lawsuits

Joy Saha
Employee in general store weighing sliced meat in kitchen (Getty Images/heshphoto)

Multi-state Listeria outbreak kills two

Joy Saha
Fruit vendor helps customer stuff bananas into a paper bag (Getty Images/Dani Ferrasanjose)

WHO to create Alliance for Food Safety

Joy Saha
Empty wooden crib (Getty Images/Alexey Emelyanov)

Why infant mortality is on the rise

Nicole Karlis
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A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

CDC recommends new COVID boosters

Arthur Allen - KFF Health News
U.S. Capitol (Getty Images/Erik Pronske Photography)

Republicans move to slash CDC budget

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B) that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Nicole Karlis
Gravestones in a cemetery (Getty Images/Marc Bruxelle)

US life expectancy in decline

Bob Hennelly
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Passengers with face masks wait in line at a Frontier Airlines ticket booth inside the main terminal at Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, New York on March 25, 2021. (Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

Mask mandate ruling is "a political act"

Nicole Karlis
The Pfizer logo is seen reflected in a drop on a needle (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What "FDA approval" really means

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump | CDC Headquarters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Inside the fall of the CDC

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg - ProPublica
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence prepares to speak at a briefing on the Trump administration's coronavirus response in the press briefing room of the White House on March 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. Officials took questions on a range of issues related to the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. Also pictured is Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the CDC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Atlas "spreading misinformation": expert

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Exterior of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Trump admin's unlikely vaccine promise

Matthew Rozsa
An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

Sex workers struggling during pandemic

Nicole Karlis
US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

A revolution by pandemic

Bob Hennelly
A worker gets ready to pass out instructions on how to fill out the 2020 census during a town hall meeting in Lithonia, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

How the coronavirus may upend democracy

Igor Derysh
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Men up pole working on power lines (Getty Images)

Utility workers may sleep at work soon

Matthew Rozsa
Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer
People scrolling through their phones (Getty Images)

Why crises make us information addicts

Catherine Franssen
In downtown Easton, Pennsylvania, the public square adjoining the Crayola factory is a hugely popular tourist attraction. On March 17, 2020, the streets and sidewalks were completely empty after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered a statewide shutdown over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Nate Williams)

The new pace of life in America

Salon Staff
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