"Across a vast and multilayered government, in which many leadership positions must be confirmed by a Senate that shares only a narrow partisan majority with the administration, it’s typical for some roles to remain unfilled or be occupied by interim leaders. But critics say the level of upheaval in the current HHS is unusual and the lack of scientific expertise among its leadership is concerning."
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#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #HHS #NIH #CDC #leadership #USpol
"Working behind the scenes, Mr. Kennedy is spearheading an intense push, across health agencies under his purview, for government scientists and federal data contractors to examine his long-held theory that vaccines are helping to fuel an epidemic of chronic disease, according to multiple people familiar with the effort."
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#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #HHS #FDA #CDC #NIH
"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
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"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
