{"id":5976,"date":"2025-08-10T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/cdc-gunman-security-disinformation-rfk-jr\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:04:45","slug":"cdc-gunman-security-disinformation-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/cdc-gunman-security-disinformation-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"In internal call, CDC employees recount shooting, ask about RFK Jr.\u2019s response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    In internal call, CDC employees recount shooting, ask about RFK Jr.\u2019s response<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>WASHINGTON \u2014 Leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday told staff that the agency\u2019s campus had reopened in the wake of the Friday attack by a gunman \u2014 and suggested more security measures would be put in place.<\/p>\n<p>On the call with staff of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, reviewed by STAT, employees recounted emotional, harrowing experiences and asked about \u201cmisinformation\u201d that may have influenced the shooter, as well about health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s response to the crisis. CDC leaders, for their part, offered first steps for their responses, including expanded mental health support and security reviews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/09\/cdc-gunman-security-disinformation-rfk-jr\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Daniel Payne and Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/09\/cdc-gunman-security-disinformation-rfk-jr\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In internal call, CDC employees recount shooting, ask about RFK Jr.\u2019s response WASHINGTON \u2014 Leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday told staff that the agency\u2019s campus had reopened in the wake of the Friday attack by a gunman \u2014 and suggested more security measures would be put in place. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,1428,2147,2144,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-health","category-hhs","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976"}],"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=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}