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Andy Miller, Healthbeat

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Inside the CDC, Shooting Adds to Trauma as Workers Describe Projects, Careers in Limbo

By Andy Miller, Healthbeat and Rebecca Grapevine, Healthbeat August 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Fired-then-reinstated workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worry about the future of public health amid proposed agency downsizing.

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