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hlthe2b

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1. CDC once had among the world's best public health communication team & training that...
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 03:15 PM
Apr 30

they offered to their elite EIS program (Epidemic Intelligence Officers) and other senior professional staff. Nothing since Trump, Musk, RFK JR and his destructive crew is recognizable. The damage done to CDC, NIH, FDA, and other Federal health-related agencies (as well as others, like DOJ) is simply criminal. I feel pain about this every day. Few are left except those trying desperately to lay low enough to get to their pending retirement date. They are not allowed to say anything--even to their long term colleagues throughout the nation's rapidly funding-starved public health departments.

I don't know that many of us will live to see the rebirth and resurrection that we can only hope for. Sorry, but true...

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