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The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal #scientists, #doctors & #PublicHealth professionals: Your work is no longer needed.
At the #NIH, the nation’s premier #biomedical #research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees — including promising young investigators slated for larger roles — have been dismissed.
#Trump #TrumpCoup #law #science #medicine #disease #RFKJr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/fda-cdc-health-department-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
At the #CDC, 2 prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent #PublicHealth grads in local #health depts & another to cultivate the next generation of PhD lab scientists. But the agency’s #Epidemic #Intelligence Service—the “disease detectives” who track #outbreaks around the world—has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Fri that they would be let go.
#Trump’s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of #CivilServants in the past few days. But the cuts to the #HHS — coming on the heels of the #coronavirus #pandemic, the worst #PublicHealth crisis in a century — have been especially jarring. Experts say the firings threaten to leave the country exposed to further shortages of #health workers, putting Americans at risk if another crisis erupts.
@Nonilex It's not "if" another crisis erupts, it's "when". Plagues come around every few decades on average. It will happen again.