The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them.

Least resistance. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for Aug. 18, 2026.

The agency is also contending with deep workforce cuts and leadership changes as a new director prepares to take over.

Yesterday, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump described what he believed happens to an American infant at a routine well visit. He said he had seen proof of a vaccination the size of a bottle ...

From behind the Resolute Desk, Trump then ignited a potential public health nightmare that his successors could spend decades trying to reverse.

A year after a shooting at the CDC, a half-dozen current and former staff who were on campus during the shooting or who dealt ...

It was briefly more dangerous to sit at a desk in Atlanta than to chase a hemorrhagic fever in the field,” writes Daniel ...

Dr. Erica Schwartz has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Schwartz, a deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul released more than a thousand pages of journal entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci, teeing up what is likely to be a contentious hearing on Wednesday.

AnMed offices to reopen Tuesday following a cybersecurity disruption that impacted phones and internet. Investigation into the incident is ongoing. Trump claims voters are angry with Republicans but ...

AnMed is continuing to make progress in restoring its systems following a cybersecurity incident that disrupted its network and forced temporary closures across parts of the healthcare system, ...