Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.

Now that he has been confirmed as secretary of health and human services, Kennedy must recognize his performance is a matter of life-and-death on a population scale.

Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration ...