STAT October 11, 2025
Terminations have decimated offices related to injury prevention, disease surveillance
WASHINGTON — The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with the cuts.
By Saturday evening, however, some of the terminations appeared to have been rescinded.
An HHS official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that some people may have mistakenly received reduction-in-force notices because of coding errors in their job classifications. The people who should be brought back, the official said, include those who produce the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publication, people working on the measles outbreak, people working on the Ebola outbreak...
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