Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

noun

1. CDC.

Example Sentences

“The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer,” Demetre Daskalakis wrote last month in his resignation letter as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Los Angeles Times

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where Kennedy earlier this year fired everyone on the influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and orchestrated the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez just 29 days after she was confirmed to the post by the Senate.

From Los Angeles Times

On Wednesday, Newsom announced that California, Oregon and Washington were forming a regional health alliance “to uphold scientific integrity in public health” amid mass firings of doctors and scientists at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Los Angeles Times

Dang, who is also past president of the California Pharmacists Assn., said decisions regarding this fall’s COVID-19 vaccines by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — both of which fall under the HHS umbrella — should have been made months ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Some especially pointed questions came from Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician who provided the final vote needed for Kennedy’s confirmation in February 2025 after Kennedy promised him that he would not change the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s process for recommending vaccines.

From Salon