7 h. ago CDC shooter had police contacts over suicide, used father's guns in attack: officials

The man accused of killing a police officer while shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta had previously been reported to police for suicidal thoughts and launched the deadly attack with his father’s weapons to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.

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41 h. ago Father of CDC gunman indicates possible motivation behind shooting

Patrick Joseph White had been fixated on the COVID-19 vaccine before the deadly shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, his father said.

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55 h. ago Suspected gunman in CDC shooting had grievance toward Covid vaccine: Sources

Suspected gunman in CDC shooting had grievance toward Covid vaccine: Sources

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3 d. ago Gunman in Deadly C.D.C. Shooting Fixated on Covid Vaccine, Officials Say

The shooting in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say.

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3 d. ago CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police

Officer David Rose with the DeKalb County Police Department was shot and killed during the shooting Friday.. The post CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police appeared first on Boston.com.

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4 d. ago Suspected gunman and police officer dead in shooting near the CDC and Emory University, police say

The incident took place near the entrance to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where the federal agency's employees say bullets struck the windows of several CDC buildings. The post Suspected gunman and police officer dead in shooting near the CDC and Emory University, police say appeared first on Boston.com.

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4 d. ago Police officer killed after shooting near CDC headquarters, Emory University in Atlanta

A gunman is dead and police officer was killed in a shooting near the CDC campus in Atlanta Friday afternoon.

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4 d. ago Federal agencies directed to delete employee COVID vaccination records and exemption requests

The Trump administration ordered federal agencies to permanently delete all COVID-19 vaccination records from employee files through a new OPM directive.

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5 d. ago Measles Spreads Quickly in Rural Alberta Areas That Resisted Vaccines

The virus is spreading in insular Mennonite communities. But the broader population is vulnerable as vaccine rates have fallen across the Canadian province since the Covid-19 pandemic.

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5 d. ago An epidemiologist on Trump's decision to pull funding for mRNA vaccine research

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about a Trump administration decision to end funding for research into vaccines that fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

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6 d. ago Schweizer: Trump Was Right to Fire Jobs 'Expert' from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Experts are on a run of bad luck lately. Climate change predictions, Covid vaccine promises, jobs statistics, and economic analysis of the effect of the Trump administration’s tariffs have failed to improve experts' credibility. The post Schweizer: Trump Was Right to Fire Jobs ‘Expert’ from the Bureau of Labor Statistics appeared first on Breitbart.

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7 d. ago RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

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7 d. ago Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

The vaccines, first used for Covid-19, can be developed quickly and altered as a virus changes. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of the technology.

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