Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.
Arielle Kane was hired to work on a program at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid that was trying to reduce maternal deaths.
Last weekend, she was let go.
"This model that has a lot of potential is just being gutted. What does that mean for all of the potential impacts we could have had?"
