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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Many members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, EIS -- a globally revered public health training program -- were informed earlier Friday that they were about to be fired, according to reporting from Stat News. Multiple sources told CBS News that half of EIS officers are among the ongoing cuts.

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... The EIS is a two-year program filled with competitively selected, highly educated and trained experts. EIS officers are the ones deployed in critical public health situations, such as deadly outbreaks or bioterror attacks. The program has a long, rich history since its establishment in 1951, which includes contributing to the eradication of smallpox, among other achievements.

The deep cuts to the program have horrified those in the public health sphere.

"The country is less safe," Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program, told CBS News. "These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika."

"It's almost beyond belief," former CDC director Bill Foege told Stat. He noted that the EIS trainees were critical to stopping the spread of the disastrous West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014"2016. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-17 12:19 PM | Reply

MAGA and Donald want people to die.

The deaths are on the way to point out that Donald and MAGA myths and fee-fees are not be disrespected.

There's no other explanation for it.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-17 12:52 PM | Reply

1"It's almost beyond belief," former CDC director Bill Foege told Stat. He noted that the EIS trainees were critical to stopping the spread of the disastrous West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014"2016. ...'

Beyond belief and yet here we are.

When did MAGA sour on the idea of civilization?

My idea, of course, has always been that they were never quite civilized at all.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-17 12:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

WSJ asks Polio Bob to cast aside antivax hooey' amid Texas measles outbreak

thehill.com

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-17 07:10 PM | Reply

Well you know...the 1% have their concierge doctors on call so they'll be fine.

Jethro in the single wide needs to understand they need to sacrifice some their crotch fruit so more billionaires can build penis rockets. Sacrifices must be made so Musk can get another fat government contract and the Waltons can pay a lower tax rate than a school teacher.

Is Susan Collins concerned yet? Apparently not since Polio Bob assured her he is not against vaccines and we know that none of Felon47's nominees would ever lie to her, right Keggenauch, Gorsuch and Covid Barrett? What Polio Bob didn't say is that while is okay with vaccines, he is opposed to the government requiring vaccinations in order to lock children in the same room together for 8 hours a day five days a week. I mean what could possibly go wrong there?

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-18 08:00 AM | Reply

It's the wild wild west out here, yeeeharrrrgggle! *cough* *wheeze*

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-02-18 08:32 AM | Reply

We have met the enemy and it is half of us ...

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-18 10:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Susan Collins concerned yet?"

She showed her true colors recently. She's a total sell-out!

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-02-18 11:05 AM | Reply

Let's put Darwinism to the test. Get your vaccines, mask up in crowds, drive carefully, avoid hand guns and smoking. Let nature take its course. Many folks in the ICU or the cemetery cannot vote MAGA...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-18 01:09 PM | Reply

Don't get sick. Just don't get sick:

Of Kennedy's confirmation, Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said to his colleagues: "It's truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America's public health agencies. And if the Senate weren't gripped in this soon-to-be infamous period of total capitulation, I don't think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing ... . If I'd told you a couple of years ago, There's a guy who's been nominated to run public health nationwide. His job will be to protect American families from death and disease. He's going to run the whole public health system: Medicare, Medicaid, the C[enters] for D[isease] C[ontrol and Prevention], the N[ational] I[nstitutes of] H[ealth]"all of it. He'll decide how we protect the country from infectious disease, he'll set the rules for every hospital in the country, he'll decide what healthcare and medicines get covered by Medicare, he'll manage our response in the event of a pandemic.' And then I told you, ... Well,... there are a few concerns about this nominee. First of all, zero relevant experience. He's a trial lawyer, a politician from a famous family. No medical or scientific background, he's never run a hospital or a health system or anything like that. Second of all ... he's said some pretty wild stuff about public health, over and over and over again, like: he proposed that Covid-19 might be ethnically targeted' to spare Jews. Ethnically targeted to spare Jews. He said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. For years he's been persuading American families against routine childhood immunizations. He's compared the work of the CDC to Nazi death camps.'... If a couple of years ago I told you all that, and I told you that the Senate was about to put America's health in this man's hands, you'd probably tell me the Senate has lost its mind."
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 02:32 PM | Reply

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed " in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical " and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-02-18 05:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

www.nbcnews.com

What a ---- show.

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-18 06:45 PM | Reply

Amateur hour at the white house again.

4 more years of incompetence like last time. Expect another epidemic and/or pandemic.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-19 01:41 AM | Reply

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