Local health departments brace for layoffs, cuts after CDC funding slashed
The funding slash is part of a number of cuts that new Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made, ...
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Decimation of HHS comms, FOIA offices will leave Americans in the dark about urgent health matters
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office promising ‘radical transparency.’ His plan to reshape the agency is indeed ...
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At CDC, Trump administration’s job cuts wipe out wide array of specialists
Workers across the CDC were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of ...
RFK Jr.'s 10,000 Health Job Cuts: CDC, FDA, Medicare And Medicaid Services Reportedly Affected
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the agency’s 28 divisions will be cut to 15.
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New York City’s health department just lost $100 million in federal funds. That has consequences
With $100 million in federal funds suddenly revoked, New York City’s acting health commissioner says defense against ...
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Former CDC Director Tom Frieden: Cuts to the agency will cost American lives and dollars
The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these ...
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Mass layoffs at CDC hit public health, economy in Atlanta
Thousands were laid off Tuesday from the Atlanta-based CDC, dealing a blow to the city’s public health workforce, local, national and global research on illness prevention, and likely the city’s ...
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a ...
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment ...