The health and human services secretary is shrinking staff at health agencies and reshaping the mission of his department to focus more on alternative medicine.

David Geier has sought access to a federal database from which he was previously barred.

The rise in whooping cough cases comes as vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the U.S. Health and Human Services Department under Trump. Kennedy is known for his controversial stances on vaccines and has claimed, without reputable evidence, that the vaccines cause autism.

Top scientists still put pregnant women in a high-risk group who ought to get COVID boosters. Regardless of RFK Jr., the science is on the side of the shots.

It's been a busy week for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – from updating the COVID vaccine guidelines to his proposed changes to top medical journals.