Category: CDC

New CDC COVID-19 Guidance Is Agency ‘Admitting It Was Wrong’: Epidemiologist

The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 guidance is the agency acknowledging it was wrong in the past to downplay natural immunity and promote unprecedented policies like asymptomatic testing, a California epidemiologist says. The new guidance, released on Aug. 11, rescinds and alters a number of key recommendations, including treating unvaccinated and…


CDC Revises COVID-19 Guidelines in Sweeping Overhaul

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its COVID-19 guidance on Thursday, saying the United States should move away from quarantines and social distancing and focus on treating severe disease from the virus. New guidelines from the federal agency no longer recommended staying at least six feet away from other people to reduce…


CDC, FDA Shouldn’t Have Cleared and Recommended COVID-19 Vaccines for Young Children: Complaint

Top U.S. health agencies should not have authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5, a complaint lodged on Aug. 9 says. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appeared to violate their own standards when the agencies granted emergency authorization for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines,…


FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to Stretch Monkeypox Vaccine to Meet Demand

Faced with a monkeypox vaccine supply and demand problem, the White House’s newly minted National Monkeypox Response team on Tuesday implemented a plan to stretch the current vaccine supply by up to five-fold. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to be administered by intradermal injection,…


CDC Falsely Claims That Connection Between Heart Inflammation and MRNA Vaccines Wasn’t Known for Most of 2021 | Facts Matter

The CDC claimed that, as late as October 2021, there was no known association between heart inflammation and the vaccines. Last month, The Epoch Times submitted a Freedom of Information request to a specific team at the CDC. The team that we targeted our request to was the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease…


Vast Majority of Toddlers Haven’t Got COVID-19 Vaccine Weeks After CDC Approval: Data

More than a month after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended COVID-19 vaccines for very young children, only a small percentage have actually received the shot, according to federal data. Data published by the CDC Monday shows that about 755,730 children aged 6 months to 4 years of age have received at…


Claims CDC Classified Monkeypox as ‘Airborne’ and a Form of Herpes Are False: Officials

Posts shared on Facebook that claim the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified monkeypox as an airborne virus, it can cause paralysis, and can last months are false, officials said. Facebook posts containing the claims reviewed by The Epoch Times show they both have a BBC News logo and credit the World Health…


Top Epidemiologist: CDC Pushing ‘Poor Quality Science’ With Latest COVID Vaccine Study

A top epidemiologist voiced his concerns about a new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that alleges there is an increased risk for post-COVID-19 conditions for children and teenagers who are seeking medical care. In the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on Aug. 5, researchers say that children…


Albanese Seeks to Host US-style Centre for Disease Control in Australia

Australian Prime Minister has indicated that the government is seeking to fund a new U.S.-style centre for disease control for the country—the only OECD country without one. ​​”I have already had discussions with at least a couple of premiers who are very keen to have it located,” Anthony Albanese hinted on Aug. 5 in a…


Worry Over Detection of Rare Polio Virus in Two New York Counties

Rare, locally transmitted poliovirus was detected in seven wastewater samples of Orange and Rockland counties in New York, according to an Aug. 4 press release by the New York State Department of Health. The virus was genetically linked to a recent polio case in Rockland County, suggesting evidence of local transmission, according to an analysis…