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Daniel Payne Also during the daylong launch, chairman of the MAHA Institute celebrated news: HHS is set to stop recommending Covid shots for children and pregnant women. Details still unclear, but this would effectively sidestep ACIP recs. w/ Helen Branswell 🇨🇦: statnews.com/2025/05/15/cov…

Kevin Hall, a top nutrition scientist who departed from the National Institutes of Health last month due to censorship, said he’s unlikely to return to the agency, despite NIH director Jay Bhattacharya’s asking him back. statnews.com/2025/05/16/nih…

NEW: I profiled Tracy Beth Høeg - the special assistant to FDA commish Marty Makary and, as of May, a senior clinical science advisor to FDA's vaccine center. statnews.com/2025/05/19/tra…

NEW: How RFK Jr. goes about solving the chronic disease epidemic depends on his top concerns. Here, we break down the nation's health into 9 "priorities" — using original data analysis you can't find elsewhere! — and let you choose yours. W/ J Emory Parker is on BlueSky: statnews.com/2025/05/20/ken…

ICMYI: In shift away from universal access, new studies of Covid boosters will be required for people under 65 statnews.com/2025/05/20/fda…

Lingering questions on the FDA's new Covid-19 vaccine framework, from Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 and me: statnews.com/2025/05/21/fda…

NEW: At Senate budget hearing, Marty Makary says companies have enough time and money to run new Covid vaccine studies statnews.com/2025/05/22/fda…

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. statnews.com/2025/05/28/mod…

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report cites sources that don’t appear to exist at all. notus.org/health-science…

NEW: The MAHA report has been updated, but some of those changes have introduced new problems, the cited researchers told NOTUS. New from me and Emily Kennard: notus.org/health-science…

In a “Face The Nation” interview meant to clarify the federal government’s position on Covid-19 vaccines, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary had few answers. Instead, he urged Americans to consult with their doctors. statnews.com/2025/06/01/fda…

Incredible story here on Brad Smith, the architect of the Trump administration's massive cuts at HHS and all the agencies under its umbrella. As Tara Bannow writes, also the man "you haven’t even heard of." statnews.com/2025/06/02/bra…

Good morning with some professional news: My last day at POLITICO was on Friday and I’m delighted to be joining STAT tomorrow as a Washington Correspondent covering HHS and Sec. Kennedy. My time at POLITICO taught me so much and I’m excited to continue this work at STAT!

We’re thrilled to welcome ⁦🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo⁩ ⁦Daniel Payne⁩ to ⁦STAT⁩ D.C. team! statnews.com/stat-hires-two…

mRNA, a Nobel-winning technology harnessed by the Trump admin to create Covid shots, is becoming a political reject as the nation's health leaders openly embrace vaccine skepticism. Inside the political battle over mRNA, from me and Isa Cueto: statnews.com/2025/06/02/mrn…

UnitedHealth Group mistakenly sent us confidential talking points that were prepared for the company's shareholder meeting this week. Casey Ross, Tara Bannow, and I wrote about the document and how executives prepared to assuage investors. statnews.com/2025/06/04/uni…

LATEST: A conservative culture cost Novo Nordisk its lead in the obesity drug race, former employees told me It wanted to tread carefully as the first mover in the space, and its belief in Ozempic/Wegovy blinded it to other candidates, they said statnews.com/2025/06/05/nov…

Debate over potential Medicaid cuts has led lawmakers to lobby the lobbyists: Democrats asked groups that represent doctors to speak up about the impacts. But Republicans asked them to hold back — and noted the bill includes a pay bump for physicians. statnews.com/2025/06/05/tru…

Republicans are trying to buy the silence of physician lobbying groups. The offer: Don't make a peep about Medicaid cuts and millions of people losing health coverage, and we'll bump up your Medicare pay. Good story by Daniel Payne: statnews.com/2025/06/05/tru…

4 members of #CDC's vaccine expert panel have received termination notices — their special gov't employee contracts have expired. Not clear if job cutting has hamstrung the bureaucracy or if more is at play here. But unless they get new SGEs they can't serve on #ACIP