CDC Staff Tell Journalist They Felt Targeted Even Before Atlanta Campus Shooting

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees’ reaction to a deadly shooting at the agency’s Atlanta office on CBS News 24/7’s “The Daily Report” on Aug. 11.

Click here to watch Gounder on “The Daily Report.”

KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed how President Donald Trump’s recent megabill is unlikely to insulate Medicaid expansion holdout states from health cuts on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Aug. 8.

Click here to hear Whitehead on “The Georgia Health Report.”
Read Whitehead’s “Even in States That Fought Obamacare, Trump’s New Law Poses Health Consequences.”

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<h1>CDC Staff Tell Journalist They Felt Targeted Even Before Atlanta Campus Shooting</h1>
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			August 16, 2025		</time>
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<p>Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees’ reaction to a deadly shooting at the agency’s Atlanta office on CBS News 24/7’s “The Daily Report” on Aug. 11.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyO7IFH6sI">Click here to watch Gounder on “The Daily Report.”</a></li></ul><p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed how President Donald Trump’s recent megabill is unlikely to insulate Medicaid expansion holdout states from health cuts on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Aug. 8.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.wuga.org/show/wuga-health-desk/2025-08-08/georgia-health-report-how-the-big-beautiful-bill-likely-will-not-deliver-promises-to-medicaid-expansion-hold-outs">Click here to hear Whitehead on “The Georgia Health Report.”</a></li><li>Read Whitehead’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-expansion-holdout-states-unrewarded-trump-health-policy/">Even in States That Fought Obamacare, Trump’s New Law Poses Health Consequences</a>.” </li></ul><p /><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-august-16-2025-cdc-shooting-employees-respond-gounder-medicaid-expansion/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-august-16-2025-cdc-shooting-employees-respond-gounder-medicaid-expansion/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-august-16-2025-cdc-shooting-employees-respond-gounder-medicaid-expansion/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20CDC%20Staff%20Tell%20Journalist%20They%20Felt%20Targeted%20Even%20Before%20Atlanta%20Campus%20Shooting&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FMTY1ODgwOQ&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-august-16-2025-cdc-shooting-employees-respond-gounder-medicaid-expansion/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/on-air-august-16-2025-cdc-shooting-employees-respond-gounder-medicaid-expansion/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"></p>
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