COVID-19 infections growing across California, CDC says

California is among 48 states seeing growing COVID-19 infections as a seasonal late-summer uptick boosts viral activity ...
Forbes

CDC Weighs Lowering Infection Protections Even More

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by ...
CNN

CDC advisers support masks in update to hospital infection guidelines, but critics say draft doesn’t go far enough

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine ...

CDC Launches New Channel To Track US Overdose Deaths And Provide Resources

By Ellyn Vohnoutka HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Sept. 1, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials have launched a web ...
Forbes

CDC Weighs Lower Infection Safety Precautions For Healthcare Workers

While seemingly esoteric and of little impact to health workers and the public, a little known group is creating a firestorm in the public health community. The Healthcare Infection Control ...
International Business Times

Trump Shuts Down CDC Infection Control Committee: Report

Members revealed that the termination already took effect late in March The HICPAC's page on the CDC website has also been archived Industry experts expressed disappointment over the committee's ...
STAT

Eight former CDC directors: Hollowing out the CDC is a prescription for disaster

The authors have each served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One misguided narrative is that the CDC should focus only on a “core mission” of combatting infectious ...