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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and COVID-19 vaccine adviser Retsef Levi (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lane Turner / Boston Globe / Taylor Hill / WireImage)

RFK Jr.’s vaccine adviser under scrutiny

Jelinda Montes
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined by President Donald Trump, delivers at the White House on Sept. 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s attack on mRNA will cost lives

Howard Dean
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
Hand of woman holding rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19. (Getty Images / Westend61)

Nimbus variant could start summer surge

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Marble Roman bust with a surgical mask over its face. (Getty Images / OsakaWayne Studios)

Colonialism is at the root of pandemics

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy, who faced criticism for his past comments on vaccine, was confirmed by the Senate 52 to 48. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How public health can survive RFK Jr.

Troy Farah
Coronavirus crisis volunteer Rhiannon Navin greets local residents arriving to a food distribution center at the WestCop community center on March 18, 2020 in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle has been a hot spot for the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Now is the time for a COVID-19 synthesis

C. Brandon Ogbunu - Undark
Donald Trump silhouette over COVID-19 spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel calculus on public health

Claire Zagorski, Chad Sabora
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People with symptoms of long Covid sit in the audience as they listen during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing titled "Addressing Long COVID: Advancing Research and Improving Patient Care" on Capitol Hill January 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on long Covid research and patient care. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump abandons long COVID patients again

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Stony Brook, N.Y.: A digital sign directs people to the drive-through coronavirus testing area which began on the main campus of Stony Brook University on March 18, 2020. Those wishing to be tested must first make an appointment. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images)

The lessons we didn't learn from COVID

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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
A NHS vaccinator prepares to administer the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to a member of public at a vaccination centre in London. (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New COVID study fuels vaccine attacks

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Doctors examine an x-ray of a patient who has tuberculosis (Najlah Feanny/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Al Drago - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump ends Fauci's security detail

Griffin Eckstein
Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Aaron Rodgers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Anti-vax QB Rodgers endorses RFK Jr.

Alex Galbraith
Used surgical mask thrown on the sand of a beach (Getty Images/nito100)

Lessons from infecting people with COVID

Claudia Lopez Lloreda - Undark
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Dr. Gaurav Shinde gives a patient her vaccinations for COVID and her flu shot at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance, California on September 5, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

La. DOH bans vaccine promotion

Griffin Eckstein
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden's clemency doesn't go far enough

Austin Sarat
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha gestures as he speaks at a daily press conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pandemic lessons for Biden’s COVID czar

Sara Talpos - Undark
Injections for Comirnaty Pfizer vaccine for COVID and the Fluzone H,D. for influenza are ready to be given to a patient at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance on September 5, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Idaho health department bans vaccines

Nicole Karlis
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s revenge: Trump gets payback

Heather Digby Parton
Dr. Gaurav Shinde gives a patient her vaccinations for COVID and her flu shot at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance, California on September 5, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Third of Americans distrust COVID shots

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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)

Don't forget how Trump botched COVID

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s "healthy" plan could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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