Some key Republican senators are undecided on whether to advance the nomination of President Trump's pick for surgeon general after she ducked tough questions on her vaccine views during a confirmation hearing last week.
Why it matters: Nutrition influencer Casey Means can't lose any Republican votes in the Senate health committee, assuming all of the panel's Democrats oppose her.
New doctors are increasingly moving away from specializing in infectious diseases as the prevalence of vaccine-preventable illnesses like measles and whooping cough ticks up.
Why it matters: The Trump administration's cuts to public health funding and its overhaul of federal vaccine policy may be putting even more of a damper on a field that took the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic.
