CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies
More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence ...
“The country is less safe”: CDC disease detective program gutted
"The country is less safe," Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program, told CBS News.
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Alarm spreads over impacts of Trump cuts to Atlanta-based CDC, public health community
Health experts and Georgia Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s planned cuts for the ...
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RFK Jr. Just Kneecapped the CDC on His First Day
Hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the Department of Health and Human Services would not undergo a staff purge, it did. The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence ...
Trump administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies
The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across ...
Bird flu studies delayed as White House suspends CDC reports
As a bird flu outbreak escalates across the United States., the Trump administration has paused the release of key public ...
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Who is in charge of the CDC right now? Nobody knows for sure
An HHS spokesperson did not comment. In 2017, career civil servant Dr. Anne Schuchat assumed the acting director position on Jan. 20 immediately after Dr. Thomas Frieden, who had been appointed to ...