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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To bolster these efforts, BCHC urges the federal government to provide sustained funding, flexible resource allocation, and direct support to local health agencies, ensuring preparedness for future public health emergencies.

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Kennedy sends mixed vaccine messages amid Texas measles outbreak

The Hill

In a forward to a 2021 book written by the anti-vaccine group Childrens Health Defense, Kennedy wrote that measles outbreaks have been fabricated to create fear to inflict unnecessary and risky vaccines on millions of children. It's much easier to be a critic of measles vaccine when you're not responsible for what happens.

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New Covid shots may be hard to come by for uninsured Georgians

HEALTHBEAT

Those would be distributed to county health departments and around 30 external providers through the state’s Adult Vaccine Program. But the agency has administered just 375 Covid vaccines so far this year. But we are working on it.”

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Creating Chaos at HHS

KFF Health News

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Many of those have to do with health policy, and we’ll get to them in a moment.