A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best. It's in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of Infection Control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls Candida auris an "urgent" threat, but talk is cheap. The agency is largely to blame for its rapid spread. It's a textbook example of a federal agency crying out for a Trump makeover....

A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best. It's in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of Infection Control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls Candida auris an "urgent" threat, but talk is cheap. The agency is largely to blame for its rapid spread. It's a textbook example of a federal agency crying out for a Trump makeover....

Morning, y’all! I’m trying very hard not to be poetic about the azaleas. Or the languid wisteria (invasive! no!), or the iridescence of pale blooms fluttering on the new-green trees. I absolutely did NOT lose my breath when the first hummingbird of the season alit outside my kitchen window yesterday. Actually, you know what? There’s a lot going on lately. Maybe we deserve to get a little poetic if it moves us. Let’s get to it. Staffers at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control knew more cuts were coming as...

• The Department of Health and Human Services has initiated layoffs affecting thousands of employees across multiple agencies. The move comes as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to do “more with less.” • The layoffs impact employees at the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other institutions. • The reorganization aims to consolidate various programs under the Administration for a Healthy America. At the direction of the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has started to...

ROUGHLY 200 CDC EMPLOYEES IN THE PITTSBURGH REGION HAVE BEEN LAID OFF. THOSE WORKERS TELL ME THEY WERE SHOCKED TO GET THE LETTER THIS MORNING, AND THAT THE WORK THEY DO HERE IS IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY. THE WORK THAT’S DONE HERE IS TO KEEP EVERYBODY SAFE. THIS MORNING, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR RECEIVED A TIP FROM A VIEWER THAT CDC EMPLOYEES AT THIS FACILITY IN PLEASANT HILLS WERE BEING LAID OFF. AFTER SOME DIGGING, WE CONFIRMED WITH WORKERS ON SITE THAT THEY RECEIVED THIS LETTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH...

Thousands of federal employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were notified early Tuesday morning that they were subject to a reduction in force, or RIF, sources tell WIRED, shuttering programs that directly serve and inform the American public.

President Donald Trump and DOGE office leader Elon Musk have said they are rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in government. But public health experts have said the cuts could represent generational damage to health research and the elimination of infectious diseases. It will also have particular impact on metro Atlanta, as thousands of CDC employees work out of the agency’s two campuses and lend support to state and local public health officials. The firings began Tuesday for employees across the entire U.S. Health and Human Services Department, of which...

Layoffs started. Atlanta-based CDC employees received pink slips Tuesday as the Trump administration began cutting thousands of federal health jobs. Why It Matters: Atlanta residents working at the CDC now face unemployment during a major government restructuring that could impact the region’s economy and the nation’s ability to track diseases. What’s Happening: The Department of Health and Human Services is eliminating positions across major health agencies.

“These cuts are the opposite of efficiency,” Marston said. “It’s not throwing good money after bad. It’s money that has almost eliminated polio, and made impressive progress in helping fight HIV. “We have to finish the job.” On Thursday, the White House said it would eliminate 2,400 employees at the CDC’s two offices in Atlanta, about 18% of its workforce. HHS has been embroiled in rumors of mass firings, the revocation of $11 billion in public health funding for cities and counties, a tepid response to a measles outbreak, and...