It was another weekend of chaos and uncertainty for federal employees at the Atlanta-based United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Late Friday, the Trump administration’s firings of more than 4,000 federal workers included more than a thousand at the CDC.
The long list of affected CDC departments included a “disease detectives” team that responds to outbreaks, the CDC Library, a worker health and safety office and experts who produce a weekly scientific journal widely read by public health researchers worldwide called the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Then, on Saturday, 700 CDC dismissal notices were reversed.
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