Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures
The nation’s top public health agency is losing most of the scientists in a prestigious, but lesser-known, laboratory program ...
Mother Jones16h
CDC Staffers Describe an Increasingly Chaotic Agency as Layoffs Begin
President Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency had called for a massive reduction in the federal workforce, ...
STAT16h
The ‘disease detectives’ dodged a bullet — but another might be coming
While the EIS program has likely been spared this time, the fact that its existence was in jeopardy at all highlights the ...
STAT18h
Former CDC director: Two programs reportedly on the chopping block must be saved
Former CDC Director Tom Frieden warns that cutting the Public Health Associate Program and Laboratory Leadership Service ...
Fierce Healthcare21h
Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate
Sonya Stokes, M.D., an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution22h
Mass layoffs at Atlanta-based CDC spread shock
The shock waves are spreading after more than 1,000 employees at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were fired over the weekend.
Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...