Forbes October 13, 2025
Critically important staff at the Centers for Disease Control received layoff (“RIF”) letters on Friday night in what was described as a Friday night massacre. The layoffs echoed what had happened to hundreds of others1 in August, shortly before Dr. Susan Monarez’s ouster by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and after the shooting at the CDC.
Friday’s terminations at the CDC notably affected the CDC’s crown jewels—the Epidemic Intelligence Service, known as the disease detectives—and the prestigious Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which alerts us to emerging infectious diseases.
Other divisions initially thought to have been terminated were leadership of National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and Global Health Center, among many others listed by Jeremy Faust in Inside Medicine.
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