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Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Monarez is a health scientist with a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology who previously served as the Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Monarez out at CDC

Alex Galbraith
President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Thursday, April 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

COVID amnesia puts US at risk

Heather Digby Parton
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump ends Fauci's security detail

Griffin Eckstein
Logo of the World Health Organization WHO with the WHO headquarters in the background in Geneva, Switzerland. (Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Saudia Arabia reports deadly MERS cases

Matthew Rozsa
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Woman Suffering From A Cold Lying In Bed (Getty Images/Obradovic)

COVID could evolve to become more severe

Nicole Karlis
Lunch tray (Getty Images/Comstock Images)

The pandemic takes a toll on teens

Sydney Hartman-Munick - The Conversation
Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

A hospital bed shortage fueled by greed

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Ron DeSantis and Joseph Ladapo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

FL first state to buck CDC on vaccines

Jon Skolnik
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Anthony Fauci and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jim Jordan vows to investigate Dr. Fauci

Jon Skolnik
Mary Mallon(1870?-1938), known as "Typhoid Mary". She was the first person identified as a carrier of typhoid bacilli in the United States. Herself immune to the disease, she spread typhoid while working as a cook in the New York City area. She is pictured here after having been institutionalized on Brother Island where she stayed from 1914 until her death in 1938. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Why finding patient zero matters

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Howard Stern (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)

Howard Stern is fed up with anti-vaxxers

Joy Saha
COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Where are all the at-home COVID tests?

Nicole Karlis
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Israeli actress Gal Gadot (MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Gadot: "Imagine" cover was in poor taste

Joy Saha
A Covid-19 infected patient receiving medical oxygen for breathing comfortably seen inside a Covid care center of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) villages temporarily converted into a Covid-19 care facility. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A view from the COVID vortex

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
A plastic shield on a cash desk protects staff and customers in a McDonald's restaurant (Mikhail MetzelTASS via Getty Images)

Rae Ellen Bichell
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Psaki dismisses idea of mailing tests

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

What you need to know about omicron

Louis Jacobson - KFF Health News
Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, and Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Dr. Fauci addressed the testing of vaccines and if they will be ready by the end of the year or early 2021. (Graeme Jennings- Pool/Getty Images)

Fauci expresses concern over new variant

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Sick girl lying on bed in ICU during COVID-19 (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Children's COVID-19 cases skyrocket

Matthew Rozsa
Group of friends meeting in the city wearing protective face masks (Getty Images)

Why lice lurk despite physical distance

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
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COVID-19 new lambda variant (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Can safe UV lamps kill COVID-19?

Karl Linden - The Conversation
Donald Trump and Deborah Birx (Getty Images/Salon)

"A crime against humanity"

Heather Digby Parton
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (Getty Images)

Arizona's COVID crisis: GOP to blame?

Kenneth Tran
Former Oklahoma Senator, Ervin Yen (Oklahoma Legislative Service Bureau)

COVID causing Republicans to ditch GOP

Jon Skolnik
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