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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)

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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] withabeard@feddit.uk -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A cursory search and I couldn't find anything. I might have to go digging. But...

I'm sure during the COVID lockdown years, as I was reading more into pandemics, there was a scientific conclusion that we'd not yet seen a major worldwide pandemic event that started in the Americas.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

syphilis?