CDC Staff Warn of ‘5-Alarm Fire’

NPR: “Public health workers feel demoralized, and say the sweeping cuts, made with seemingly little consideration for how the CDC operates, have decreased the nation’s ability to track and respond to health threats. It leaves Americans more vulnerable to a host of dangers from lead poisoning to asthma, some cancers, toxic chemicals and deadly infectious diseases among other things.”

Said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former acting director at CDC:  “It’s a five-alarm fire. The kinds of changes that are happening are going to take decades to recover from, and many people will die because of these interruptions.”