Trump orders CDC experts rehired

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New York Times

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Dozens of CDC Experts Fired in Error

Friday's layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal. Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.

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Apoorva Mandavilli

@apoorvanyt.bsky.social

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Alfie Kohn

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The Washington Post

More than 1,000 CDC staff have received layoff notices during the government shutdown

More than 1,000 CDC staff have received layoff notices during the government shutdown. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg

@sherylnyt.bsky.social

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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by Timothy D. McBride

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them"

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17h

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC is facing another round of deep staff cuts www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/h...

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

www.cnn.com

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Reposted by Sarah Roberts, Scott A. Imberman

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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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by Carl T. Bergstrom Reposted by Meri Koivusalo

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 18h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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Joshua Weitz

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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by Nicholas A. Christakis

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Nicholas A. Christakis

@nachristakis.bsky.social

The Trump administration feels that the USA doesn’t need people working on disease prevention and fires the whole office. The incompetence and damage to our nation is breathtaking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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by Elizabeth Warren

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Elizabeth Warren

@warren.senate.gov

We’re in a health care crisis.

Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.

15 million people will lose their health care.

Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.

Democrats are fighting to stop this.

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC is facing another round of deep staff cuts www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/h...

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

www.cnn.com

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Reposted by Timothy D. McBride, Carl T. Bergstrom, Robert C. Richards

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

@helenbranswell.bsky.social

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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by Scott L. Greer

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Scott L Greer

@scottlgreer.bsky.social

…really?

Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Reposted by Meredith Farkas, Kimberly A. Prather

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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

What the f?

How incompetent are these people?

[We know the answer]
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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by Michael D. McDonald

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Michael McDonald

@electproject.bsky.social

Don’t worry. These health experts will be reassigned to administer Hegseth Botox injections

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 21h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com