As the administration pursues mass layoffs at agencies like the CDC, experts warn that the country may end up vastly underprepared for looming threats to public health.

Elon Musk’s sloppy work is sending the government rushing around for much-needed personnel.

With dramatic cuts to departments and efforts to restrict access to certain research, the administration is reshaping a vast data-driven world in its autocratic image.

The purging of federal workers continues.

Elon Musk argued that he wasn’t actually cutting funding for cancer research.

Donald Trump’s administration has wiped thousands of pages from government websites.

The war on DEI has reached an absurd level.

Public health officials and experts were braced for challenges. The scale of the new administration’s moves in the first few days, however, has shocked them.

Virus monitoring, the budgets to investigate E. coli outbreaks, and much, much more could be on the chopping block.

You should be keeping an eye on the “bird flu”—and on the Republicans who want to slice and dice the CDC budget.

The agency reportedly plans to tell people with Covid and other infections to isolate based on symptoms. Researchers say symptoms aren’t a good indicator of who’s contagious.

A new CDC report reveals the spike in maternal deaths in the United States, especially among Black Americans.

The monkeypox outbreak has cooled, but it’s far from over. Bob Fenton and Demetre Daskalakis still have a big job on their hands.

A quick, targeted vaccination campaign could stop this disease in its tracks.

The administration is putting on a happy face for the public, but behind the scenes its pandemic strategy is to cross its fingers and hope the worst is over.

Several Democrats, some of whom face tough reelections, oppose the administration’s decision to lift the Trump-era immigration order.

The end of Title 42 would be a boon to asylum-seekers and their advocates. It may also fuel a political firestorm.

Two years into the Covid pandemic, the agency is still confusing the public with contradictory, erratic messaging.

The endless pandemic is being framed as an economic liability more than a matter of public health.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.