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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials (www.nytimes.com)

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“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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[–] Kanger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

TrumpBodyCount++

[–] yuknowhokat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely curious, what can be the rationalization of reducing our ability to respond to disease?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

It owns the libs

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

you want covid 25 to be the biggest and bestest killing machine ever.