Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general and Coast Guard officer, to lead the CDC. Schwartz spent 24 years in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and led vaccination and disease surveillance programs during her military service. The nomination comes as HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has begun making more supportive statements about vaccines at congressional hearings, signaling a potential shift in the administration's vaccine stance — though tensions remain between Kennedy's historical skepticism and Schwartz's public health credentials.