Making America Unhealthy Again -- Another Purge At CDC?

 

Brainworm and his demented boss seem determined to make the U.S. into a Third World country when it comes to health:

Hundreds of employees were fired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) late on Friday, as the Trump Administration made good on its promise to begin mass layoffs in response to a prolonged government shutdown.

Some 1,300 employees received notices that they would be let go, among them leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases, injury prevention and global health, the New York Times reported. Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, also known as “disease detectives”, the entire staff and editors of the CDC’s publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), and the agency’s Washington office were all notified of their termination, according to the report.

The layoffs prompted outrage from public health experts. But in a move that has sown further confusion at the agency, hundreds of those employees were later told their dismissals were rescinded.

It comes as the CDC is still reeling from months of uncertainty after a change in leadership and priorities under new Health and Human Services (HHS) head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said Saturday that if the layoffs were made permanent, it would be a death blow for an agency that has already been gutted by previous cuts under Kennedy’s leadership.

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries,” she said.

Rasmussen added that the loss of the MMWR would remove the CDC’s ability to communicate with the public.

“Together, this means the CDC is not functional. It cannot carry out any of its mission,” she says. “America has no national public health agency any more."  (our emphasis)

The chaos and incompetence of these charlatans is going to cost lives both here and around the globe. This is a tactic to put pressure on Democrats to drop their opposition to MAGAt Republican ending Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies that affect approximately 92 percent of the 24 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare.  It won't work, but it will cause more confusion in the short term and pain and death in the long term if these psychopaths continue to attack Americans' health care and the agencies that protect us.

(Photo:  recently- vaxxed Malignant Fascist with Brainworm / Reuters)