After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover?
(NPR) On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia. They are printouts of her own employment records.
Boim lost her job in the first big wave of CDC firings — when about 1,000 people were suddenly let go last February.
"This is the termination letter. I also printed off my performance review from 2024," she said. "I knew I wouldn't have access to it, and everything was so chaotic that I needed proof of what was happening."
Boim worked in the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, handling communications about radon, P-FAS contamination, lead poisoning and other health threats.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5742530/cdc-atlanta-firings-funding-cuts-shooting-public-health
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