Q&A with Barbara Ferrer: L.A. County Public Health braces for impact under Trump
L.A. County Public Health director Barbara Ferrer discusses concerns over federal grants, what programs could be affected, ...
Expert Opinion | CDC cuts will negatively impact public health
The layoffs of thousands of workers strike deeply at the agency's ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus, and ...
New coronavirus found in bats is not currently 'concern to public health': CDC
The CDC said in a statement on Monday that it does not believe the new coronavirus found in bats poses a concern to public ...
Scientists have identified a new coronavirus in bats, but it’s not a public health threat
Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter ...
Trump is already failing the first public health test of his second term
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, a historic achievement in the world of public health. Now, it's ...
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to ...
Trump Administration Lays Off CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service Workers, Threatening Science And Public Health
Center for Disease Control are being let go by the Trump administration, threatening public health and science.
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CDC firings, including in Kansas City, raise fears about disease outbreak response
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...
CDC's "disease detectives" apparently spared in DOGE cuts at health agencies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease ...
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CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
In addition, the administration has begun a widespread purge of the federal public health workforce. As of Feb. 19, around 5,200 employees at the CDC and the National Institutes of Health had been ...