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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Covering health policy & politics for @nytimes. Former Congressional & White House Correspondent (Bush & Obama). Peloton aficionado, amateur painter, mom of 2 awesome adults. Tips: stolberg@nytimes.com
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Nope. It ain’t over till it’s over.
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CDC UPDATE: Well, it ain’t over till it’s over. Lawyer for Monarez says they reject the White House announcement of her firing because only the president can fire her.
CDC WRAPUP: A White House spokesman emailed me at 9:30 p.m. to say that Susan Monarez, the CDC director, has been fired.
This came after days of back-and-forth in which RFK Jr. tried to force her out and she refused. 4 other top CDC officials have quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, Trump Administration Says
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It was late. We will update now that there is comment.
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CDC WRAPUP: A White House spokesman emailed me at 9:30 p.m. to say that Susan Monarez, the CDC director, has been fired.
This came after days of back-and-forth in which RFK Jr. tried to force her out and she refused. 4 other top CDC officials have quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, Trump Administration Says
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BREAKING: the White House says it has fired the CDC director
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NEW: David Kessler, who went after Big Tobacco when he ran FDA and later advised Biden, has given RFK Jr and Trump a legal strategy to go after Big Food. It’s a political gift and a shot across the bow. Will they take it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
Former F.D.A. Chief Backs Kennedy’s War on Processed Food
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Tens of thousands of US owned contraceptives are sitting in a Belgian warehouse.
Trump plans to burn them. @stephanienolen.bsky.social @jeannasmialek.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed
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Trump wants women to have babies. He’s going to use a 55-year old Nixon-era birth control program, Title X, to achieve that goal by promoting “holistic” approaches to infertility — in keeping with his MAHA agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant
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Thimerosal sent RFK Jr down the path of vaccine hesitancy two decades ago. It was his “passion.” Here’s the story of how it landed on the ACIP agenda — and what it says about the way Kennedy is using his power. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
With Flu Shot Vote, Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism Comes Full Circle
