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  • The main campus of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer
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    CDC adopts advisers’ recommendation against universal hepatitis B vaccines for babies
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  • A Utah plastic surgeon, Dr. Kirk Moore, admits he distributed falsified COVID-19 vaccine cards and threw away government-supplied doses. “All of that stuff is true,” he said.
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    Pam Bondi dismissed charges against a surgeon who falsified vaccine cards. It emboldened others with similar cases.
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  • Jared Isaacman, nominee to be NASA administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, testifies during his Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Russell building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
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