A slew of infectious disease experts at the CDC were fired Friday. Unlike Trump and his lackeys, infectious diseases don’t pick their targets based on politics:
From The New York Times:
The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, even as the nation grapples with the most cases recorded since 2000, when measles was declared eliminated in the United States.
The layoffs also included dozens of other agency scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential.
While they were at it, Trump’s Death Team is doing its best to keep us in the dark about their sure-to-be-awful handling of contagions and pandemics.
More via The Times:
The administration also fired members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, the elite corps of “disease detectives” who are typically deployed to the sites of outbreaks. Officials also dismissed the team that puts together the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a prestigious publication that communicates the agency’s work on recommendations and outbreaks.
And at the agency’s center that forecasts and helps to manage public health emergencies, the administration dissolved the division of technology and innovation.
