CDC data reveals stark differences in MRSA drug resistance across U.S. states as officials warn it remains a serious threat.

The CDC will have less data to track the spread of Covid and new variants after the public health emergency ends on Thursday. The U.S. has a fragmented health-care system where the authority to decide ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result ...

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Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. They were all telling one another the same thing: Data on the ...

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s ...

When Pfizer representatives met with senior U.S. government health officials on July 12, they laid out why they thought booster shots would soon be necessary in the United States. Data from Israel ...

Earlier this summer, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventio, made a call to Dr. Eric Rubin, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, asking ...

In a response to a law firm’s Freedom of Information Act request, the CDC said it did not have any documents to provide on unvaccinated people with natural immunity who, upon reinfection, spread the ...