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'We will not disappear': Laid-off CDC workers demand action from Democrats In 2025, nearly 2,800 employees were terminated or placed on administrative leave from the CDC by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In response, a group of laid-off workers formed "Fired But Fighting," a grassroots coalition of public health experts, scientists, policy analysts, and communicators who say their terminations were unjust and politically motivated. At a recent town hall with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, members of the coalition demanded answers, accountability, and concrete action.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is creating a temporary strike force to manage the fallout of sweeping workforce cuts, according to an email obtained by Bloomberg News.

Due to “significant operational and programmatic issues for CDC emerging during this period,” the agency is creating a new temporary organization, it said in an email to employees. The group, called the “Transition Management Structure,” will address urgent issues resulting from the reorganization.

Danner had been building toward foster parenting, part of what she sees as a life of service. At the CDC, she worked with community organizations across the country who won grants to fight substance abuse. “Public service has been my life,” she said. “We all go into this because we want to serve. Not because we want to make money.” Less than an hour after she hung up with the caseworker, Danner and her team learned that the Trump administration planned to fire thousands of probationary workers as part of...

At least 8,064 whooping cough cases have been recorded nationwide. Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending April 12, at least 8,064 whooping cough cases have been recorded nationwide. This is more than double the 3,835 cases recorded at the same time last year. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is especially dangerous for babies and young children, and several deaths have been recorded this year. In Washington, health officials confirmed a death...

On its face, the April 17 report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was nothing short of alarming. According to a nationwide survey conducted in 2022 across 16 localities in the U.S., one in 31 children studied had been diagnosed with autism. That’s a significant increase from the one-in-36 reported in 2020, and a huge jump from the one-in-150 in 2000. “The autism epidemic is running rampant,” declared Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a press...

Lab scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been analyzing blood samples for weeks to determine how dozens of patients across six states had become infected with viral hepatitis, a disease that can cause serious liver damage. But their DNA detective work stopped abruptly last week. Widespread layoffs across federal health agencies earlier this month had resulted in the firing of all 27 lab scientists who worked in the only U.S. facility that could perform the sophisticated genetic sequencing needed to investigate hepatitis outbreaks, lab experts said....

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them straight to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga. The hepatitis C virus, which is spread through contact with infected blood and can lead to deadly liver cancer, is notoriously hard to identify. But if anyone could understand what was happening in Florida,...

Teenage girls led a 60% jump in the number of Americans reporting clinical depression symptoms from 2013 to 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics found the share of people ages 12 and older who reported clinical depression symptoms in a two-week period increased from 8.2% of those surveyed in 2013-14 to 13.1% between August 2021 and August 2023. Among the depressed in 2021-23, the federal agency found that 39.3% received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional in...

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