The new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a woman with Wisconsin ties, is out of a job less than a month into her new role — and, predictably, it is setting off alarm bells through the country’s health and science communities. We’ll check the “progress” of a Health and Human Services secretary, a spreader of medical misinformation who seems hell-bent on steering the country on a crash course with more public health emergencies.

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