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May 8, 2024 · Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is stepping down June 30. She made the announcement during an all-staff meeting Friday, crying as she finished...
6 days ago · Dr. Rochelle Walensky surprised many in public health circles last month by announcing her departure after two years and five months — one of the shortest tenures for a CDC director in recent...
5 days ago · National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak finally admitted to Congress that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in...
May 9, 2024 · Rich Johnson. Updated: May 8, 2024 / 10:39 PM CDT. ( NewsNation) — The man who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when the COVID pandemic began says still-classified State Department documents add credibility to his long-held contention that the virus spread because of a leak from a laboratory.
5 days ago · Dr. Mandy Cohen, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who joined the tour of Fountain House, said mental health and reducing deaths to suicide and overdose are a focus...
May 13, 2024 · Today we wanted to talk a little bit about sort of a unifying strategy, unifying framework for CDC’s global health work and it really fits into the CDC director’s 2024 priorities of readiness and response, to really look at data infrastructure and modernization, lab quality and safety, and overall risk-based pathogen prioritization.
May 2, 2024 · After an alarming spike in 2021, maternal mortality numbers the next year went back down, according to a report released Thursday. CDC Director Mandy Cohen says the rates are still too high.
