{"id":8084,"date":"2025-02-20T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:38:56","slug":"trump-administration-yanks-cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-administration-yanks-cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241224210044\/https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu-resources\/php\/shareable-resources\/index.html\" lang=\"en\">juxtaposed images of wild animals<\/a>, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu.<\/p>\n<p>The news was shared with staff during a meeting on Wednesday, according to two CDC staffers who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, and a recording reviewed by NPR.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, leadership at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/index.html\" lang=\"en\">National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases<\/a> told CDC staff that the Department of Health and Human Services had reviewed the campaign and advised that it would not continue.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s first full week on the job as head of HHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20241224210044\/https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu-resources\/php\/shareable-resources\/index.html\" lang=\"en\">juxtaposed images of wild animals<\/a>, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu.<\/p>\n<p>The news was shared with staff during a meeting on Wednesday, according to two CDC staffers who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, and a recording reviewed by NPR.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-administration-yanks-cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77,1301,571,1252,51,15],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-influenza","tag-kakistocracy","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}