Healthcare Innovation February 18, 2025
A wave of mass layoffs coming from the White House has hit staffers at CDC, NIH, FDA
Will Stone and Pien Huang reported on “Morning Edition” on NPR (National Public Radio) on Feb. 17 that “Termination letters landed in the mailboxes of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health over the weekend, as the Trump administration moved ahead with firings announced verbally Friday. That’s according to more than half a dozen current staffers who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly and feared repercussions,” they wrote.
“The number of employees who lost their jobs at the NIH and CDC was lower than...