The CDC issued a health advisory and a travel advisory after five women developed meningitis following surgical procedures in the border city of Matamoros.
The end of the covid public health emergency highlights longstanding vulnerabilities of a technologically weak and fractured public health surveillance system.
Walensky’s two-year tenure at the CDC included the successful rollout of coronavirus vaccines, but was also marked by criticism for other pandemic stumbles.
My mother was one of more than 1 million Americans who died of covid. We are a nation awash in grief, an experience of loss that forced us to find new ways to mourn — and carry on.