{"id":25198,"date":"2025-04-02T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25198"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:23:31","slug":"c-d-c-cuts-threaten-to-set-back-the-nations-health-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25198","title":{"rendered":"C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation\u2019s Health, Critics Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.<\/p>\n

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The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world\u2019s premier public health agency, an outcome long sought by conservatives critical of its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services shrinks the C.D.C. by 2,400 employees, or roughly 18 percent of its work force, and strips away some of its core functions.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats in Congress described the reorganization throughout H.H.S. as flatly illegal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot decimate and restructure H.H.S. without Congress,\u201d said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and a member of the Senate health committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not only unlawful but seriously harmful \u2014 they are putting Americans\u2019 health and well-being on the line,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Murray noted that the Trump administration had not detailed which units are being cut at the C.D.C. and other health agencies. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, said last week the layoffs would affect primarily administrative functions.<\/p>\n

But according to information gathered by The New York Times from dozens of workers, the reductions were more broadly targeted. Scientists focused on environmental health and asthma, injuries, lead poisoning, smoking and climate change were dismissed.<\/p>\n

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The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world\u2019s premier public health agency, an outcome long sought by conservatives critical of its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.The reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services shrinks the C.D.C. by 2,400 employees, or roughly 18 percent of its work force, and strips away some of its core functions.Some Democrats in Congress described the reorganization throughout H.H.S. as flatly illegal.\u201cYou cannot decimate and restructure H.H.S. without Congress,\u201d said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and a member of the Senate health committee.\u201cThis is not only unlawful but seriously harmful \u2014 they are putting Americans\u2019 health and well-being on the line,\u201d she added.Ms. Murray noted that the Trump administration had not detailed which units are being cut at the C.D.C. and other health agencies. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, said last week the layoffs would affect primarily administrative functions.But according to information gathered by The New York Times from dozens of workers, the reductions were more broadly targeted. Scientists focused on environmental health and asthma, injuries, lead poisoning, smoking and climate change were dismissed.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25201,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions\/25201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}