New CDC director will be allowed to make vaccine decisions, Kennedy tells US Senate panel

(Refiles to correct misspelling in headline, no other changes to text) By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators on Wednesday that ...
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Kennedy says CDC nominee will have vaccine decision autonomy

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that if confirmed, CDC director nominee Erica Schwartz will be free to make independent decisions on vaccines, without interference from ...

RFK Jr. won’t back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data

Kennedy on Tuesday suggested he would continue to meddle with federal vaccine policy, and news broke Wednesday that his political appointees have discarded scientific data that conflicts with ...
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Failure to nominate CDC director exposes Trump-Kennedy war on public health

On March 25, the 210-day statutory deadline, which was imposed by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, for the Trump administration to nominate a new director for the Centers for Disease Control ...
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Public health veteran is Trump’s pick to lead CDC as administration shifts tone on vaccines

President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public health veteran who has led vaccination programs, a new sign of the administration’s shifting ...