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Pico Rivera, CA - June 28: Bert Mantilla Jr., left, and Trenton Guinta, work at the filtration plant at Water Replacement District's (WRD) advanced water treatment facility at Albert Robles Center on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Pico Rivera, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senators challenge Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines in confirmation hearing as health secretary

FILE - A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

HUNTINGTON PARK-CA-AUGUST 28, 2024: Brandon Guerrero, 34, of Compton, receives both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at CVS in Huntington Park on August 28, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Trump’s first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File)

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, critic of COVID mandates, to lead National Institutes of Health

A pharmacist holds a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Opinion: Don’t be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQ

Amelia, 16, sits for a portrait in a park near her home in Illinois on Friday, March 24, 2023.

Depression was rising among young people in Southern California. COVID made it worse

FILE - A woman holds two boxes of at-home Covid-19 test kits in Washington, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Free COVID tests are back. Here’s how to get yours

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, a convoy of vehicles carrying the World Health Organization team enters the interior of the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says

HUNTINGTON PARK-CA-AUGUST 28, 2024: Cynthia Blancas, 42, of Lynwood, receives a Covid-19 vaccine by pharmacist Deep Patel, right, at CVS in Huntington Park on August 28, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

The new COVID vaccine is here. Why these are the best times to get immunized

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