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Bakersfield, CA - February 29: A Hummingbird tends to her nest on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 in Bakersfield, CA. (Alex Horvath / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - Robert Kennedy Jr., center, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, walks between meetings with senators on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Dismissed members of CDC vaccine committee call Kennedy’s actions ‘destabilizing’

Los Angeles, CA - September 06: Sherri Pender (right) receives her Covid-19 vaccination from Breiona Lang LVN at the Kaiser Permanente Venice Clinic on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / For the Times)

COVID ‘razor blade throat’ rises as new subvariant spreads in California

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Guests attend an event introducing a new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. The commission, which is tasked with studying the potential causes for the "childhood chronic disease crisis," recommends reassessing the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule, scrutinizing ultra-processed foods and studying pesticides used in commercial farming. The Trump administration has proposed a FY2026 budget of $94 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services -- a reduction of about 26-percent from the 2025 level -- cutting programs and staff at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. just radically changed its COVID vaccine recommendations: How will it affect you?

EAGLE ROCK, CA - SEPTEMBER 14: Pharmacist Aaron Sun administers new vaccine COMIRNATY® (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) by Pfizer, to Jimmy Smagula at CVS Pharmacy in Eagle Rock, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Trump administration cancels $766-million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu

FILE - A sign is seen outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Kennedy says COVID vaccines no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

American Minister of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr, delivers a statement on a video about the historic agreement on how to combat future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis, during the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

WHO adopts a ‘pandemic agreement’ after the chaos of COVID

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

FILE - Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.

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