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Illustration on vaccine mandates by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

All the fact-checkers in the world can’t save the public health community’s clown show

By Michael McKenna

In this file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) ** FILE **

Biden and vaccine shaming

By Tim Constantine

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) ** FILE **

CDC: U.K. variant is the most common form of virus in U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

With a model of the COVID-19 virus displayed, President Biden listens as Dr. Barney Graham, left, speaks during a visit at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist with the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH, listens at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden changes COVID-19 goal posts

By Tim Constantine

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield holds up a CDC document that reads "COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations" as he speaks appears at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a "Review of Coronavirus Response Efforts" on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gets a lesson in the U.S. Constitution

By Jenny Beth Martin

CDC information on how prevent the spread of germs and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 is illumination in the directory kiosk at a quiet Union Station in Washington, Thursday, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CDC, Democrats, leftists go full-steam communist on contact tracing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 file photo shows two overweight women in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) **FILE**

CDC: More than 15% of U.S. adults physically inactive

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

CDC: Virginia woman died from rabies after 2017 India trip

Associated Press

This Sep. 9, 2005, file photo provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows the then newly constructed 11-story Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory located at the CDC's Roybal campus in Atlanta. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

D.C. has nation’s highest liver cancer rate

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Jill Taylor, of Hamilton, Ohio, who lost her father Gary B. Shepherd taking his own life in 2011, steps up to a message board decorated with notes for loved ones during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Sawyer Point park, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, in Cincinnati. Hundreds of supporters gathered to draw attention to and raise funds for the prevention of suicide that ranks as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States overall according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Suicide rates up more than 30 percent in half of U.S. states, CDC says

By Adam Sabes - The Washington Times

Editorials from around Oregon

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Crime scene tape runs outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Authorities opened the streets around the school, which had been closed since a mass shooting on Wednesday. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Mental health role in mass shootings unknown due to federal research ban

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014 file photo, Brenda Fitzgerald, Georgia Department of Public Health commissioner, left, and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal respond to questions in Atlanta. U.S. officials announced that Fitzgerald, the director of the nation’s top public health agency has resigned because of financial conflicts of interest. On Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said Fitzgerald’s complex financial interests had caused conflicts of interest that made it difficult to do her job. Alex Azar, who was sworn in as head of the department Monday, accepted her resignation. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)

CDC director resigns over financial conflicts of interest

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) **FILE**

Drug-overdose deaths reached 63,000 in 2016

By Andrea Noble and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New CDC Director questioned about financial conflicts

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Are transgender students’ needs being met in K-12 schools?

By EMILY HAVENS - Associated Press

Illustration on the lack of U.S abortion data by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JOHN THORP, CLARK FORSYTHE: Inaccurate abortion statistics

By John M. Thorp Jr. and Clarke D. Forsythe

New Ebola tests coming to CDC labs

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Registered nurse Keene Roadman stands fully dressed in personal protective equipment during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines Monday for how health workers should gear up to treat Ebola patients. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) — FILE

US to track everyone coming from Ebola nations

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Soldiers from the 35th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade pack their gear as they prepare for deployment to west Africa to aid against the spread of the Ebola virus in Fort Gordon, Ga., Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Michael Holahan)

Ebola guidelines updated as U.S. struggles to control outbreak

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times