sophiacbess.bsky.social
public health person, vaccination advocate,
AI-skeptical data scientist in the bull city
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To have response capacity, we need to have functional public health agencies. And the destruction DOGE has inflicted upon CDC, NIH, FDA, & USDA has severely damaged our response capability. The people who would do this in the past are just not there.
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Per source, they also fired 18 contractors this week just from the flu division who work on data and communications, 4 from the comms team.
This is also the primary division handling bird flu.
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Background: 60 USAID employees had been placed on leave for “undermining” Trump’s executive orders. Nick Gottlieb was told by DOGE to then fire them. Instead he emailed all of them earlier saying he found no evidence of misconduct and used his power to take them off leave. Then he was put on leave.
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