{"id":4633,"date":"2025-06-16T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:03:16","slug":"cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC workers fired from prominent STI, hepatitis labs are rehired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    CDC workers fired from prominent STI, hepatitis labs are rehired<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The staff of two world-class laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were slated to be closed in a round of cuts announced in April have been informed that their terminations have been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/05\/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration\/\">sexually transmitted disease laboratory<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/14\/cdc-hepatitis-lab-closes-rif-outbreak-response\/\">viral hepatitis laboratory<\/a> were targets of layoffs initiated by the U.S. Doge Service that was led by Elon Musk. But last Thursday, the 55 full-time employees of the two laboratories were notified by email that their terminations had been rescinded, two people who received the notifications told STAT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/16\/cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/16\/cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC workers fired from prominent STI, hepatitis labs are rehired The staff of two world-class laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were slated to be closed in a round of cuts announced in April have been informed that their terminations have been canceled. The CDC\u2019s sexually transmitted disease laboratory and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2179,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}