Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced tough questions Thursday from Senate Finance Committee members on the heels of a tumultuous week at the CDC, an agency Kennedy oversees.

A lot has happened in a few short days, so in this week’s installment of STATus Report, we give a quick rundown of the sequence of events, what led to them, and what happens next. There’s also a brief history of the CDC, and an explanation for why it is the Centers (plural) for Disease Control and Prevention.

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