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I am; the scandal they want you to forget. This is so BIG. And here’s the punch line—there is no way the Senate wanted Dave Weldon to take the slot as CDC director. Why? Because Dave knows stuff. Bad stuff. HEAVY stuff about the CDC. Dave knows some CDC crimes that’ll make the American people jump off their couches with their hair on fire as they’re watching the TV news. And if Dave won confirmation and went over to the CDC as chief honcho, one day a lying vaccine researcher could walk into his office and start spouting a mountain...

Twelve hours before my scheduled confirmation hearing in The Senate, I received a phone call from an assistant at the White House informing me that my nomination to be Director of CDC was being withdrawn because there were not enough votes to get me confirmed. I then spoke to HHS Secretary Bobbie Kennedy who was very upset. He was told the same thing and that he had been looking forward to working with me at CDC. He said I was the perfect person for the job. Bobbie told me that earlier that morning he had breakfast with Republican Senator Susan...

Almost 6 in 10 Americans who identify as Republican do not trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide reliable information on H5N1 bird flu, according to a new poll from health care nonprofit KFF. The CDC has confirmed 70 cases of the virus in humans since 2022, with one person dying from a severe form of the disease in January. Officials say the virus’s health risk to most people remains low, but public health researchers are concerned about the virus and its mutations About 6 in 10 adults regardless of political affiliation said they trust the...

The White House is pulling the nomination of Dave Weldon for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Weldon was expected to have his confirmation hearing on Thursday. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that it canceled its hearing in a statement on Thursday morning. However, it confirmed that lawmakers would still vote on the nominations of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and Dr. Marty Makary for Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "It became clear that the votes weren't there in the Senate...

In a stunning move that has sent shockwaves through the public health sector, newly appointed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an unprecedented shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), firing nearly half of its famed “disease detectives” on his first day in office. This drastic overhaul, aimed at cutting bureaucratic waste and eliminating conflicts of interest, marks a turning point in U.S. health policy. With backing from President Donald Trump and operational insights from billionaire Elon Musk, Kennedy is spearheading a revolution in government transparency and accountability—one that also threatens...

Former top pandemic health official Dr. Deborah Birx has made the startling admission that Covid mRNA “vaccines” were only developed as a desperate measure for vulnerable citizens and were never meant to be widely distributed among the population. Dr. Birx, who served as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator in President Donald Trump’s first administration, also revealed that the injections were not “designed” to protect against COVID-19 infection. The former top health official made the confession during a recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. She stated that the mRNA injections were developed to target those at high risk of severe illness....

The newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services for President Donald Trump fired nearly half of the vaunted team of 'disease detectives' during his first day on the job, setting the scene for a slimmed down department moving forward. The entire incoming class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) were reportedly told they are no longer needed as part of 1,300 layoffs at the CDC. Staff began receiving letters which told them: 'You are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs.'

The CDC is trying to get 'asymptomatic' Plandemic 2.0 going. I'll put a few excerpts from a few different news and researcher sources below. First up is an article from Epoch Times.https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/cdc-releases-data-suggesting-bird-flu-spread-undetected-in-cows-and-people-5810227Jack Phillips,2/14/2025"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data on Feb. 13 suggesting that highly pathogenic avian influenza spread undetected in cows and people.The new study of cow veterinarians based on blood testing found that three of the 150 who signed up to be tested had antibodies against bird flu, indicating that they had been infected with the virus. They showed no symptoms, however, according to the...

If you go by CBS News, you'll see them reporting that HHS, the CDC, and the FDA were ordered by a D.C. judge to restore deleted webpages with "health information." As Amuse clarifies, the deleted webpages were dedicated to sex change operations and gender ideology. How a judge can demand which webpages must be included escapes us.

A conservative group has published a list of government workers who they say are earning huge sums for 'abusing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' roles. The American Accountability Foundation works to 'expose the left's efforts to obstruct, subvert and sabotage the America First conservative agenda'. They launched a website - 'DEI watchlist' - where they shared the profiles and tax-funded pay of federal staffers who they say exploit their DEI jobs. It includes donating to Democratic candidates and causes and working in DEI and other health equity operations. One of the federal workers named on the site told NBC News they...

A Los Angeles health clinic says it’s losing federal funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people. St. John’s Community Health, one of the largest free and reduced-cost providers in Los Angeles, reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday terminated a $1.6 million grant that was supposed to support its transgender health and social services program.

The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal, not merely its own internal periodicals, Inside Medicine has learned. The move aims to ensure that no "forbidden terms" appear in the work... In the order, CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: "Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female,"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed or edited references to transgender people, gender identity and equity from its website Friday, racing to meet a late-afternoon deadline imposed by the federal Office of Personnel Management. Whole pages about HIV testing for transgender people, guidelines for use of HIV medication and information on supporting LGBTQ+ youth health were no longer available late Friday. The page that lists vaccines recommended by the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee was also no longer available. The vaccine to protect against mpox virus is recommended for groups including transgender, nonbinary or gender-diverse people. By Saturday, the...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning," he said.The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, Kansas state health department spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health...

President Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Director of the FBI will be facing confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate this week. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to face sharp questioning over his nomination to head the Dept. of Health & Human Services because of his skepticism toward the effectiveness of the federal food and medicine regulatory apparatus. In particular, large numbers of employees of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been preparing their letters of resignation for the past two months and say they will quit...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing global threats. It also comes as health authorities...

Good riddance to the World Health Organization -- more aptly called the Woke Health Oligarchy. On his first day, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from WHO, a necessary step in putting the health of Americans first. Immediately the left-wing media sounded the alarm, quoting globalist-minded scientists at American universities and think tanks falsely claiming that Trump's move will isolate the U.S. from worldwide efforts to detect and limit deadly diseases. These claims willfully ignore WHO's disgraceful record. WHO was founded to create an international method of sharing data and fighting disease. But when it faced its biggest test --...

Welcome to winter virus season. Cases of acute respiratory illness, Covid-19 and seasonal flu are increasing in most parts of the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Emergency department visits for flu and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are very high. While Covid-19 cases leading to emergency department visits are still low, they are increasing, with wastewater testing already revealing high coronavirus levels. How can you know which infectious disease you have? Does it depend on the illness, the symptoms or the characteristics of the person who is ill? And how can people...

A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find any evidence of criminal activity, according to a report unsealed on Tuesday. “(N)ot finding any indictable criminal activity does not mean we did not find any problems. On the contrary, there are profound and serious issues involving the process of vaccine development and safety surveillance in the United States,” the grand jury wrote in its final report. In response to its findings, the grand jury made policy recommendations in its report, including increasing transparency around...

In 1986, before vaccine makers were granted broad immunity from liability for the injuries their injections caused there were only seven vaccinations recommended for each child between birth and age 18 and none for adults or pregnant women by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Today there are more than 70 recommended vaccinations for each child, five for each pregnant woman, and over 130 for each adult up to age 79. President-Elect Donald Trump's nominee for the Department of Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. contends "we are overloading the very youngest...