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- U.S. President Donald Trump gutted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cutting its workforce dramatically.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tightened control over the CDC, limiting scientists’ work.
- The CDC lost over 3,800 employees in Trump’s second term, about one-third of its staff.
- Its emerging disease center shed nearly 300 staff and the respiratory disease center lost about 200, each 17%.
