Dozens of CDC employees were notified late Friday night that they were being terminated. The agency's Washington office was terminated, as well as employees in the Global Health Center and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. "Entire offices are being eliminated, including people in senior leadership roles." At least some officers in the Epidemic Intelligence Service were dismissed. The EIS officers are nicknamed "disease detectives" because they are frequently charged with investigating outbreaks and are part of a storied CDC training program. Some fellows in the Laboratory Leadership Service, who work on improving lab safety, also got notices. Leaders in the agency's Public Health Infrastructure Center also received notices, as well as the employees in the Office of Science. Since before the government shutdown began, the Office of Management and Budget has previewed plans to use the government funding stalemate to terminate federal workers.
Dummkopf Trumpf immediately withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) after his coronation in Jan 2025. Measles and pertussis is spreading in the US, and people eating seafood from the Gulf of Mexico have been stricken with flesh-eating bacteria. For a nation with exorbitant medical costs and no universal healthcare, surveillance, prevention, and finding cures are paramount for keeping the population safe and healthy. Dummkopf Trumpf and his nefarious junta have done the opposite in keeping Americans healthy and financially secure. The champion saboteur of the junta is HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a notorious anti-Vaxxer who spreads misinformation about the causes of autism or that video games are the cause of the mass shootings and the epidemic of violent gun deaths in the US. Many of these CDC experts will find careers in state health agencies, universities, or abroad (e.g. Canada, the UK, France, or Germany).
