The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

President Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the U.S. meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The U.S. also must provide a one-year notice.

Hospitals rely on the CDC’s weekly update to prepare for ... director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University. “It can be a situation where the flu is slowing ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order beginning the year-long process to leave the World Health Organization on his first day in office.

Kennedy Jr., President Trump's pick for health secretary, has falsely linked vaccines to autism and argued people should have separate vaccination schedules based on their race.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going dark, along with other federal agencies within the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the returning Trump administration told these agencies to stop talking to the public—for how long, no one knows.

The Trump administration told federal public health agencies like the CDC that they are not to communicate health messages for now. The hold includes memos, reports, online posts, website updates and other forms of communication. Scientific meetings were also canceled for the time being, including of advisory panels.

President Trump said he would take health agencies in a new direction on the campaign trail and has chosen some controversial nominees to help him achieve his goal, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick for HHS secretary.

The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month. In a memo Tuesday, the acting

The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

The covid wave this winter is less severe compared with previous years, with hospitalization rates down and wastewater levels lower.