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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap

September 3, 2025

A close-up photograph of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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President Homelander

August 28, 2025

‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’

August 28, 2025

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap

Katherine J. Wu

August 23, 2025

A microscope sits inside a teethed trap ready to spring

No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

Beth Cameron, Jon Finer, and Stephanie Psaki

August 11, 2025

Illustration of bald eagle with a blindfold on in front of a green background

‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’

August 9, 2025

‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’

July 23, 2025

Animation of a white bar graph with the bars toppling over to the right on a blue background

RFK Jr. Is Noticeably Quiet About a MAHA Obsession

Nicholas Florko

July 7, 2025

An illustration of an alarm clock with "MAHA" as the time

How Public Health Discredited Itself

July 7, 2025

A tangled stethoscope

The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast

Katherine J. Wu

June 25, 2025

The ‘Fantasy We Have of Vaccines’ Is in Trouble

Katherine J. Wu

June 19, 2025

A graphic illustration of a vial of HPV vaccine floating upside down in a partly cloudy blue sky.

Bill Cassidy’s Failure on Vaccines

Nicholas Florko

June 14, 2025

An image of Bill Cassidy

RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore

Katherine J. Wu

June 12, 2025

A shot tied into a knot

COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

Katherine J. Wu

May 21, 2025

A child in a mask getting a shot

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

April 17, 2025

Two pencils, one broken, form an X

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

A person with AIDS and his friend

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

Collage of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shaking hands, a bar graph showing an upward trend in red bars and red dots

The Diseases Are Coming

March 10, 2025

Germs spreading over a world map

America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

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Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different

March 4, 2025

A wooden sign reads "MEASLES TESTING" and has an arrow pointing to the left

Spared by DOGE—For Now

Nicholas Florko

February 20, 2025

An empty hazmat suit

DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data

Charlie Warzel, Ian Bogost, and Matteo Wong

February 19, 2025

Stairs lead to computer code in the clouds.

The Erasing of American Science

Katherine J. Wu

February 14, 2025

A doctor points to an X-ray as a man in a suit looks on, all framed by a cut-out of binocular-shaped lenses.

What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Nicholas Florko

February 11, 2025

a lone egg in an eggshell blue carton

CDC Data Are Disappearing

Katherine J. Wu

January 31, 2025

The exterior of the CDC at night

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

January 27, 2025

A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. surrounded by a pattern of interlocking red lines

How America’s Fire Wall Against Disease Starts to Fail

Katherine J. Wu

January 22, 2025

A vaccine syringe replaces the needle on an illustration of a compass.

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How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

January 15, 2025

Swabbing a rooster to test for avian influenza

Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment

Katherine J. Wu

January 10, 2025

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

December 19, 2024

Birds superimposed over a vintage map of the United States

Would You Pay $1,000 for a Family Photo?

December 2, 2024

A painting of two children posing for a photograph taken with an old-fashioned camera

Everyone Agrees Americans Aren’t Healthy

Nicholas Florko

November 25, 2024

Two bandaids cross over an American flag

The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.

November 14, 2024

A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in shadows

The ‘Peak Obesity’ Illusion

October 18, 2024

a white measuring tape curled into a graph-like curve with two peaks against a white background

The CDC Is Squandering the Breakthrough RSV Vaccine

Katherine J. Wu

March 29, 2024

a photo of an infant in a hospital care setting, taken from above

Something Weird Is Going On With Melatonin

May 18, 2023

Photo of a gummy on a child's tongue