“The CDC tracks what happens in people and supports comprehensive action in communities and quit lines and hard-hitting ads. That's all gone,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDC director during the Obama administration. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
After the Trump administration laid off hundreds of health workers during the ongoing government shutdown, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now lost one-third of its staff this year. States are forming public health alliances in direct opposition to the changes being made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Only half of...
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