Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the ...

This week on the "Readout LOUD" podcast: the sudden withdrawal of a CDC nominee and what went wrong with Covid policies.

Vaccine hesitancy was rising even before COVID-19 emerged – but the pandemic exacerbated the trend. More kindergartners are ...

Another recent federal study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in February, showed approximately 1.01 million ...

Influenza levels in the US are the highest they've been in 15 years amid winter weather and a second wave of the virus.

Five years after the Covid pandemic, health experts are finally ready to say that it’s over - With deaths and ...

Bacterial foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. increased while viral outbreaks declined between 2014 and 2022, with environmental ...

Recent CDC data showed that Covid deaths had been trending back up since late last year, with percentages of death due to the ...

Dr. Nirav Shah, Maine’s former CDC director and a top federal health official during the Biden administration, is returning ...

Senate Republicans started an effort on Wednesday to modernize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an attempt ...

The pandemic may be over, but the endemic disease is still a threat, especially for older adults and those with certain risk ...

Five years after the WHO declared COVID to be a pandemic, questions remain including how many people have died.