CDC Firings Fray Lifelines to Local Health Departments - KFF Health News
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The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And so state and local public health departments around the nation — tasked with monitoring and responding to disease outbreaks that threaten to sicken the masses — have relied on workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help. In February, the Trump administration abruptly fired…
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