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Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was began to deal with earlier failures

WashingtonLayoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was began to deal with earlier failures

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Printed: February 18, 2025, 3:40pm

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Demonstrators protest Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention layoffs in entrance of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Structure by way of AP)

NEW YORK — The nation’s high public well being company is shedding a lot of the scientists in a prestigious, however lesser-known, laboratory program that has turn into a mainstay of outbreak responses.

The fellowship program was hit exhausting throughout the layoffs coming to many federal departments, in keeping with 5 Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention officers who spoke solely on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to debate the cuts.

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