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CDC news: Coverage of the Centers for Disease Control includes planning for flu season and Covid-19, the potential impact of CDC budget cuts, and reporting on new CDC Director Mandy Cohen.

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Health Megan Molteni

CDC looks to expand capacity to test for H5N1 bird flu in people

Health Helen Branswell

CDC advisory panel opts for a go-slow approach on expanding usage of RSV vaccines

Health Theresa Gaffney

Another heat wave is hitting the U.S. Here’s what you need to know

Health Annalisa Merelli

CDC endorses prophylactic antibiotics to reduce STIs in high-risk groups

Health Megan Molteni

Wastewater testing specifically for bird flu virus will scale up nationally in coming weeks

Health Megan Molteni and Helen Branswell

CDC launching wastewater dashboard to track bird flu virus spread

Health Sarah Owermohle and Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Federal officials will fund farms’ protective measures to contain H5N1 bird flu

Health Sarah Owermohle

Farmers resist push for workers to wear protective gear against bird flu virus

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D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: CDC goes hard on military pets

Health tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: Telehealth providers can drive antibiotic overuse — or choose to combat it

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Health Helen Branswell

CDC to doctors: Look out for bird flu infections among dairy farm workers

Politics John Wilkerson and Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Here’s what you might have missed in Biden’s budget proposal

Health Helen Branswell

RSV monoclonal Beyfortus was 90% effective at preventing hospitalizations in children this winter: CDC

First Opinion Ashish K. Jha

The CDC’s new, relaxed Covid isolation guidance makes perfect sense

Health Helen Branswell

Chikungunya vaccine approved for select groups by CDC advisory panel

Health Helen Branswell

CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot

Health Associated Press

More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, study finds

Health Helen Branswell

HHS fills key vaccine advisory panel slots

Health Helen Branswell

Lyme disease cases rise, but largely due to a change in data collection

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

New pharma CEOs in the hot seat

Exclusive Helen Branswell

STAT Plus: HHS leaves vacant more than half the slots on a key vaccine advisory panel

D.C. Diagnosis Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: CDC and social media: The new misinformation war

Health Sarah Owermohle

Supreme Court to weigh whether Covid misinformation is protected speech

Health Helen Branswell

Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest

Health Associated Press

The U.S. hasn’t seen syphilis numbers this high since 1950. Other STD rates are down or flat

Health Theresa Gaffney and Annalisa Merelli

Transgender women’s higher risk for HIV is influenced by discrimination, CDC finds

Health Helen Branswell

Why many more people are lining up for a flu shot than a Covid vaccine

Health Associated Press

Chronic fatigue syndrome estimated to affect 3.3 million in U.S., more than previously thought: CDC

Politics Sarah Owermohle

CDC Director Mandy Cohen unscathed in her first congressional testimony