CDCs
Happy 75th Anniversary to the CDC’s Disease Detective Program
The phone rang on the evening of February 28, 2020. “We need you deployed to Seattle. Meet with your team at Roybal tomorrow and additional details will be provided.” For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been closely monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus. Disease detectives from the Epidemic Intelligence Service […]
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Significant cuts to CDC’s MMWR release reversed hours later
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff behind the agency’s flagship publication have suffered deep cuts in layoffs that the Department of Health and Human Services blamed on the government shutdown, according to five people familiar with the matter. But by Saturday evening, the layoffs appeared to have been reversed. An HHS […]
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