Breaking down RFK Jr.’s announcement on COVID vaccine recommendations – CBS News Watch CBS News Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he would remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation for children and healthy pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Weijia Jiang reports and Dr. Jon LaPook […]
RFK Jr. says CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccine for children and pregnant women
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he would remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s recommendation for children and healthy pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19. “I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women […]
RFK Jr. tells farmers, GOP not to worry about his report targeting pesticides
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought Tuesday to reassure farmers and one Republican senator about his upcoming report on how pesticides are driving up rates of childhood chronic diseases, acknowledging that chemicals like glyphosate that he has long criticized are widely used for growing crops in the U.S. “I have said […]
HHS to withhold some bonus pay earned by laid-off employees
The Department of Health and Human Services has decided to effectively block the payout of overdue bonuses to many of its laid-off employees, multiple health officials say. The bonuses were tied to high performance by the workers last year, before they were cut from the department. “If the savings from the layoffs were pennies from […]
CDC scraps plan to help Texas schools curb measles over layoffs, employee says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scrapped a plan to offer help curbing measles in Texas schools after some staff working on the agency’s response to this year’s record outbreak of the virus were warned they could face layoffs, an agency employee said. CDC officials had initially weighed expanding a service they […]
NIH director pushes back timeline for RFK Jr.’s autism answers
The head of the National Institutes of Health now says it could take until next year to get preliminary results from their new studies into autism, marking the latest delay to findings that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had promised by September. “We’re going to get hopefully grants out the door […]
FDA head falsely claims no scientists laid off, as agency shutters food safety labs
The head of the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly claimed in recent interviews that no scientists have been laid off at his agency, but one of the scientists in a food safety lab shuttered by the FDA’s cuts says he is either “blatantly lying” or “out of touch.” “There were no layoffs to scientists or food […]
19 states and D.C. sue Trump administration over mass HHS layoffs
Over a dozen states sued the Trump administration Monday for laying off thousands of Health and Human Services staffers, urging a court to reverse job cuts that they argue brought work at large swaths of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-led health agency to a “sudden halt.” The lawsuit — filed in Rhode Island federal court by […]
Dr. Casey Means, Trump’s new surgeon general nominee, is RFK Jr. ally and MAHA advocate
President Trump will nominate Dr. Casey Means, an ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and prominent advocate for his agenda, to serve as the U.S. surgeon general, the president announced Wednesday. Means replaces Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, whose nomination was withdrawn by the White House a day before she was scheduled to […]
Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health were laid off Friday, multiple officials and laid-off employees told CBS News, gutting programs ranging from approvals of new safety equipment to firefighter health. Much of the work at NIOSH, an arm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]