Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

Despite its 247 pages and more than 400 references, Vaccine Nation is anything but dry. MacIntyre is a natural storyteller. She opens with a haunting scene from 1953: a five-year-old girl named Martha Dillard contracted polio after attending a birthday party. Dillard would spend the rest of her life in an iron lung.

"Political directives should not prevent individuals from seeking safe and effective care that they desire and deserve," authors from the American College of Physicians (ACP) write.

The health secretary cited financial conflicts, but a White House official and someone familiar with his thinking said he was also concerned about ties to Democrats.

Interest in what caused the coronavirus pandemic has many political dimensions today, with President Trump saying genetic engineering and a lab accident were likely cause.

A UCLA professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology says he still sees more bad outcomes in pregnant patients who have Covid.

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a top Covid-19 advisor, is stepping down from her role at the CDC, Reuters reports. Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to work group colleagues that her decision to step down was based on the belief she is "no longer able to help the most vulnerable members" of the U.

There was a notable absence last week when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women.