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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 16, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
June 10, 2025, 10:05 am
RFK Jr. ousts entire vaccine advisory committee of US Centers for Disease Control
Health secretary, in the past a leading anti-vaccine voice, says he will replace 17-member panel with his own picks; move draws outrage from health officials
By laura ungar and AMANDA SEITZ
Visitors walk around a memorial for victims of COVID-19 at the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles, Nov. 19, 2021. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
December 22, 2021, 8:44 am
US life expectancy dropped by nearly 2 years in 2020 due to COVID
Pandemic-induced drop is biggest in over 75 years; annual population growth has dropped to lowest level in US history
By AFP
Illustrative: A sign warns airline passengers about a COVID-19 travel advisory at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, July 1, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP)
January 13, 2021, 8:55 am
US hits daily death toll record, says air arrivals will need negative COVID test
As 4,470 die of coronavirus, authorities set January 26 as date to expand existing measure that previously only targeted UK; other countries also tighten restrictions
By Issam Ahmed
Mortician Cordarial O. Holloway, foreground left, funeral director Robert L. Albritten, foreground right, and funeral attendants Eddie Keith, background left, and Ronald Costello place a casket into a hearse in Dawson, Georgia, April 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
December 22, 2020, 6:02 pm
US records deadliest year in its history with over 3 million deaths
15% increase is largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of US soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands died in flu pandemic
By Mike Stobbe
Screen capture from video of Rochelle Walensky, chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital. (YouTube)
December 7, 2020, 11:54 am
Biden to tap Jewish doctor as Centers for Disease Control chief
Rochelle Walensky is head of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital; US president-elect to nominate California attorney general Xavier Becerra as secretary of health
By AFP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during a news conference at the White House, in Washington, September 16, 2020. (Evan Vucci/AP)
September 17, 2020, 2:19 pm
Countering experts, Trump insists virus vaccine could be ready next month
US president says director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ‘confused’ for projecting spring 2021 as time when coronavirus will be available for all
By MATTHEW PERRONE, Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and Mike Stobbe
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