A publication on the discovery of a novel coronavirus by Chinese scientists has been the occasion for the Times to drum up the lab leak conspiracy once more.
The CDC’s decision to reinvestigate links between vaccines and autism after decades of scientific inquiry that showed no such connection is a bellwether moment in the anti-public health trajectory of Trump’s fascistic policies.
RFK Jr’s opinion piece in Fox News underscores his complete disdain for public health and vaccines.
The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.
Delays in reporting relate to near non-existent infrastructure conditions and poorly resourced facilities.
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated that in the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1.75 million excess deaths.
While USAID is well known for prosecuting US imperialism’s foreign policy objectives, the cutoff of its limited aid to contain disease and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa will have a devastating impact.
Kennedy, a vicious opponent of vaccines and public health more broadly, is rapidly fulfilling his campaign promise to “give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
The planned $4 billion cut in funding for scientific inquiry to the nation’s universities and academic medical institutions will have devastating consequences on research into treatments for such conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which American and world capitalism are wholly unprepared.
A memorandum issued to federal government agencies has led to the scrubbing of websites with critical public health information for researchers and the population.
Health officials are downplaying the TB danger, although the outbreak has continued for a full year with no end in sight.
In line with Trump's executive order to end all collaboration with the WHO, the CDC has been instructed to end all communications and work with the international public health agency.
On Saturday, new CIA Director John Ratcliffe made public the CIA’s reassessment that shifts from an inconclusive position to now believing the lab-leak was most likely despite a low level of confidence.
The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.
Three days before Trump’s swearing in to office, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, were cut off of all funding and formally debarred for an unprecedented five years.
Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.
The northern hemisphere is facing not only a surge of COVID infections, but flu, RSV, and norovirus cases are skyrocketing.
In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.
Aaron Siri, the attorney who is advising Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed a petition with the FDA in 2022 to revoke the polio vaccine due to supposed safety concerns, it was revealed last week.
